Glashutte Original Senator Panorama Date Moonphase Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. Glashutte Original may be the gem of the entire Swatch Group. With offerings like the Senator Panorama Date Moonphase, Saxony's largest watchmaker showcases its flair for style, engineering, and command of tradition. Since its early 1990s emergence from the rubble of Soviet East Germany, Glashütte Original has led the resurgence in German watchmaking after nearly a half century under the collectivist yolk. During the lean times, Glashutte's engineers and watchmakers were forced to design, fabricate, and finish every tool and component (i.e., everything) that could not be sourced from democratic Switzerland's "watch valley." The result is that the post-Soviet GO is the most self-sufficient and Original (capital "O") of the Swatch companies. This Senator Panorama Date Moonphase is built around the fruits of that trial-by-fire. The in-house GUB 100-4 movement debuted in this watch back in 2005, and it embodies the best of Germany watchmaking traditions. With a swan's neck regulator, Glashutte stripes (*not* Geneva), and a skeletonized winding rotor, this automatic movement is as comely as it is reliable. The twin-barrel 55-hour power reserve packs the punch to drive torque intensive complications. And nothing puts a premium on movement torque like jumping complications. The Senator Panorama's grand date and moonphase indications fit that description. While lesser movements can slow to a near stall w