Glashütte Original Senator Navigator Worldview

At Baselworld this year, Glashütte Original introduced a new model in its “Senator Navigator” collection — the Glashütte Original Senator Navigator Worldview.  My initial reaction to this watch was not one of great excitement, but as I have revisited it again and again over the last few weeks, the watch makes more sense to me and I am warming up to it.  After all, adding a “world time” function to a “Navigator” watch makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?  And, it is also easy to see that the core DNA of the watch remains wholly intact, which is a good thing, because the original Senator Navigator (Panorama Date) is such a great watch (in fact it would still be my preference of the two). The Glashütte Original Senator Navigator Worldview price is $11,500 (7850 EUR) and will be available later this year.

Glashütte Original Senator Navigator Worldview

44mm stainless steel case, “panorama date”, luminous hour markers, inner-rotating Worldtimer city-ring, automatic mechanical GO Caliber 39-47 (display back)

The finishing on all Glashütte Original watches is of excellent quality — with a beautiful skeletonized rotor with 21K gold oscillation weight, swan-neck fine adjustment, and Glashütte three-quarter plate “Geneva” (Glashütte?) striping. And of course all Glashutte’s movements are “in-house” which is especially meaningful because it means “Made in Germany” as opposed to “Swiss Made”.

Partial Lume Shot