"In the flesh." GO novelties '06, pt. 6: Regulator Tourbillon Date: Apr 12, 2006,06:06 AM -   (view entire thread) This piece certainly was the highlight of this year's series of GO novelties. there is barely anything to add to the press release published in out News Central, other than that it is breathtaking in reality. This watch is extremely difficult to capture appropriately in pictures. Especially the black-in-black stripe pattern, that is such an important design feature on ...

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  "In the flesh". GO novelties '06, pt. 5: PanoMatics, PanoMatics ... The gorgeous PanoMatic series received a new complication, and a very peculiar anniversary edition in a nice little box. First, the PanoMaticVenue now offers an easy-to-use second timezone. Pushers on the case's left side allow the main hour hand to be set forward or backward in hourly increments, as we know it from PP and UN. Thus the watch can be easily adapted to a new local time zone when travelling; or to the daylight sav...

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  "In the flesh". GO novelties '06, pt. 4: Navigators Date: Apr 06, 2006,01:01 AM -   (view entire thread) One the most vigorously expected novelties of this year's GO Basel lineup were the new Navigator watches. While Glash?tte Original is not primarily known for its pilot watches, which also are in a different price and quality range of all the inexpensive pilot watches on the market, the "Navigators" proved to enjoy steady popularity among the GO fans. Their high quality and marvelous move...

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  "In the flesh". GO novelties '06, pt. 3: Karree series Date: Apr 05, 2006,07:07 AM -   (view entire thread) The Karree always was a very distinct shape in the Glash?tte Original catalogue. In the last years, though, it seemed that it became a stepchild, with barely a new model being presented. This changed radically this year, when GO reintroduced a completely new Karree line, in a changed case. The new case has slightly curved sides, and thus appears a bit less strong, rigid, or masculine ...

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  "In the flesh". GO novelties '06, pt. 2: 'Pure' Senators Date: Apr 04, 2006,08:08 AM -   (view entire thread) When the new Senator series was presented last year, several comments were made about the finely stamped guilloche structure of the dials. It compromises the clean design of the watch, it was said. This year, these critics have no base any more, since for them, GO is offering a plain dial, at first for the Senator Perpetual and the Senator Panorama (also the new complete calendar an...

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  "In the flesh". GO '06 novelties, pt. 1: Senator calendar week Date: Apr 04, 2006,08:08 AM -   (view entire thread) For me, the GO Senator "calendar week" was one of the few truly innovative watches shown on the Basel fair, even if it was not presented with a big event. Outside of Europe, the calendar week is not important, the more so in German-speaking coutnries, though. Over here, all trade business, project planning etc. is done with calendar weeks only. If you order something, you'll g...

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  The Navigator Perpetual - Photos Date: Feb 21, 2007,07:07 AM -   (view entire thread) While I was at a local Authorised Dealer photographing some new watches that just arrived in Singapore, Tim Teo had his GO Nav Perpet on his wrist. I did a few quick snaps which I later discovered that it turned out grainy due to wrong ISO setting. Nevertheless, after a bit of tweaking with Photoshop and converting the images mostly to B&W I thought the images can still be shared with the afficinados here....

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GO ?Senator? series, presented in Basel 2005 About four years ago, Heinz W. Pfeifer, then president of Glash?tte Original, mentioned a new automatic movement, designated cal. 100, to be in development. Of course, this stirred some unrest among the fans of the brand, and many hesitated to purchase a watch with a movement that seemingly would be replaced within some months or so.However, the years passed by, and the cal. 100 remained unseen. We knew it would eventually come and replace the traditio...

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