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The movement – caliber 37-01 from Glashütte Original
The movement we are talking about here is the caliber 37-01, the latest chronograph from Glashütte Original. They have quite an impressive history when it comes to in-house chronographs, but this is not our topic today.
Features :
Automatic movement, central hour/minute, small second, second stop, Panorama Date, chronograph with flyback/stop second/30 minutes display/12 hour display, power reserve display, exquisitely finished movement, beveled/polished edges, polished steel parts, polished/blued screws, plate with Glashütte stripe finish, skeletonized rotor with 21-ct gold oscillation weight, fine adjustment by adjustment screws.
Dimensions: Ø 31.6 mm, height 8 mm
Balance: screw balance with 4 adjustment screws gold 14 ct
Oscillating Frequency: 28,800 vph, equivalent to 4 Hz
Power reserve: 70 hours (+/- 5 %)
Balance spring: Anachron
Shock protection: Incabloc
Jewels: 65 jewel bearings
FINISH
Did you expect more to see? Why? All the important details are shown/written above, aren´t they?
OK, we are PuristS and therefore we should have a closer look. Let´s try it again.
What we see here is a modern yet classic chronograph movement with a column-wheel. Still there is something missing on the picture above and you should compare it with two more live pictures if you don´t mind.
On picture A you can see a prototype without final finishing and on picture B you can see what the final product looks like.
Before the event (dedicated to chronographs) at night I visited the GO Boutique in advance and lucky me they had two different versions for me to see. During events the light is quite tricky most of the time, but to shoot watches on a cloudy day is almost the best you can get if we talk about real live pictures – outside studio or a set-up of that kind.
The approach (style and finish) is no surprise here when you are familiar with very well executed watches from Glashütte Original. Like with almost any central rotors for automatic movements, quite a lot of the beauty is hidden – good or bad. In this case the rotor is “skeletonized”, but still I can imagine that some would have preferred to see even more. Well, take a loupe turn it around and delight yourself on the details shown here.
Of course the watchmakers
are able to see even more, before and while assembling the movement. Still they
have a job to finish and they do it (almost) every day. Are they still
able to appreciate the beauty shown? I trust on it 
Are we able to appreciate
what we see – the technical solutions, the level of finish and so on? With lots
of passion, experience, reading and a good loupe on hand we can at least try
our best
Without getting in too much technical detail I would like to share some technical drawings with inscriptions. Please have a look and try to get an idea why a proper and smooth working chronograph is still today a very challenging complication – especially the construction and the assembling.
Conclusion :
I liked what I saw and also the feeling of the pushers. The latter is not self-evident, not even when we talk about high priced chronographs. Of course it is not the most sophisticated chronograph movement we saw ever from GO, but this was not their goal – not this time. Good job, GO!
Next part will be about the watches and my final conclusion.
Best,
Oliver
PS: We still didn´t talk about my favorite part. More to come ...
The movement – caliber 37-01 from Glashütte Original
GO builds some very amazing movements
