Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is The Senator Tourbillon, introduced recently at Baselworld, by Glashütte Original. This impressive timepiece incorporates the Glashütte Original watchmaking history with a contemporary style by using a Flying Tourbillon, developed in 1920 by Glashütte watchmaker Alfred Helwig in 1920, along with today’s engineering, to create the new Senator […]

  Like most people, I have no pressing business in Waitangi, in the Chatham Islands (420 miles south of New Zealand in the South Pacific). But it’s nice to know that if I were ever shipwrecked there, I could be wearing a watch that knows where I am and what time it is (If it’s […]

Luxury watchmakers Glashütte Original have announced the opening of their own manufacture in Pforzheim, Germany. Günter Wiegand, the managing director of Glashütte Original, presided over the opening of the factory, which will produce the dials for the German brand. Wiegand joined the facility’s manager Kurt Müller in giving tours of the 1,300 square meter space at Stuttgarter Straße 24. The […]

It’s often the watches at the top of the price range that get the most attention from writers and collectors. Yes, those incredible novelties deserve the ink! But attention should also be paid to the beautiful watches emerging today at less-than-stratospheric prices. The following five watches, all around $10,000, are produced by some of the […]

Luxury watchmakers are fighting for market shares of the lucrative Swiss watch industry, which the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH pegs at a worth of US$23 billion. With growing demand in Asian, European and American markets, luxury watchmakers are scrambling to secure production means in order to maintain growth, but Reuters reports that there […]

This month luxury conglomerate Swatch Group released financial figures from 2012 showing that earnings are up a billion dollars over the previous year. The Bienne, Switzerland-based company, which is the world’s largest holder of watch manufactures, earned $8.79 billion (CHF 8,143 million), an increase of 14% over 2011. Although the company owns various holdings, the Watches & […]

Luxury conglomerate Swatch Group have released financial figures from 2012 showing that earnings are up a billion dollars over the previous year. The Swiss company, which is the world’s largest holder of watch manufactures, earned $8.79 billion (CHF 8,143 million), an increase of 14% over 2011. Although the company owns various holdings, the Watches & Jewelry segment […]

Luxury watchmakers Glashütte happily announced late last week that the company is on the growth path. The Saxon watchmakers have opened a new production facility in the town which shares the company’s name, Glashütte. At the reception on October 19, Glashütte’s two managing directors, Günter Wiegand and Yann Gamard, joined town mayor Markus Dreßler to cut the ribbon and […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is the Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon by Glashutte Original. This beautiful Platinum timepiece measures 48mm in size. The platinum case features anti reflective, sapphire crystal on both sides along with an officer’s case back with engraved time zones. This amazing piece allows the world traveler to keep track of […]

Westime President Greg Simonian recaps his favorite timepieces from Basel 2012 in the May/June issue of Haute Living Los Angeles. “I take the time to see hundreds of new watches at the Basel show—from my favorite companies that have been perfecting their craft for centuries, to passionate individual watchmakers who are taking timepieces in exciting […]

An annual migration occurs every spring. Watchmakers descend from their mountaintop workshops while watch aficionados flock from every corner of the world to convene in the Swiss city of Basel. The gathering is nothing less than the biggest watch fair on earth, and the best place to find innovative new watches that collectors will covet […]

Jack Forster reviews the Glashütte Original Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon timepiece

  Honoring its rich heritage of more than 165 years of superior watchmaking in Glashütte, Germany, Glashütte Original has debuted the Limited Edition Senator Observer 1911 – Julius Assmann. Limited to just 25 pieces, the timepiece pays homage to Julius Assmann and Roald Amundsen. Julius Assmann is one of the founding fathers of watchmaking in […]

Swatch Group’s finest offerings for 2010 are arguably from its German made Glashütte Original brand. A new complication in its perpetually fashionable Senator line is an alarm that can be set up to a month in advance. Typically, mechanical alarm watches only allow you to set the time of day for the alarm to ring, […]