First of all, note that the PanoMaticCalendar has been released in two versions the present, non-limited red gold model with a closed dial, and a platinum limited edition with an openworked dial. Let’s first talk about design and display, a topic of great importance when it comes to the Pano collection. And all of that comes with a brand new movement… and one that has quite strong arguments under its beautifully designed and decorated bridges. Second, it’s the first annual calendar of the brand. First of all, we’re looking at the first proper calendar watch within the Pano collection – all previous models had a Panorama Date, but no calendar per se. With the PanoMaticCalendar, Glashütte Original raises the bar on two levels. Glashütte Original’s take on the complication, the PanoMaticCalendar Another consequence is that annual calendar watches tend to be more accessible. While not compromising much on functionality and mechanical beauty compared to a perpetual calendar, an annual calendar is less complex in terms of watchmaking needs, meaning easier to conceive, easier to assemble and also less fragile as the movements are secured and require fewer parts. The annual calendar is a rather young complication, invented and patented by Patek Philippe in 1996, within its reference 5035. The Patek Philippe reference 5035, the watch that, in 1996, first brought the annual calendar on the market It otherwise takes into account the months with 30 or 31 days. An annual calendar automatically adjusts the date displayed, based on the different lengths of the month and requires to be corrected manually at the end of February. Just like the complete and perpetual calendar watches, annual calendars often display the date and month (also the day of the week in some of them) but only necessitate one correction a year. An intermediate solution with minimal compromise, the annual calendar still brings great watchmaking satisfactionįinally comes the intermediate type of watches, the annual calendars or calendriers annuels. And even in that case, some rare watches have been invented with secular calendars.
These watches only require one adjustment per 100 years, during so-called secular years (an exception to the rule of the leap year). On the other side of the spectrum is the perpetual calendar or calendrier perpétuel, a complex, often fragile and time-consuming kind of watch that has the capacity to automatically adjust the date depending on the length of the month, even in February, whether it has 28 or 29 days when leap years occur. The Senator Excellence Perpetual Calendar is the brand’s most complex type of calendar watch and displays all necessary indications (date, day, month, leap year) There’s nothing truly complex in these watches, which require adjustments on all months with less than 31 days (February, April, June, September, November). These watches, often by the mean of a pointer date and two windows, display the date, the day of the week and the month.
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Proper calendar watches often start with the so-called complete, full or triple calendar watches – all covering the exact same complication (and if you want to increase your French knowledge, these watches are called quantième complet). The second step is the day-date, which only adds the indication of the day of the week, without much mechanical wonder behind it. The most common complication of a watch (anything in addition to the display of the time) is the date, which represents the first step into calendar watches.Įven with its Panorama Date, the PanoMaticLunar is a simple calendar watch, which only shows the date.
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Without going into the details about how to display a date – whether thanks to a window, a central hand or a subdial with a so-called pointer date feature – let’s categorize things a bit. Calendar watches can take multiple shapes. The best of mechanical ingenuity, the annual calendarīefore we go into the details about the PanoMaticCalendar, let’s dive into some technical reminders, specifically concerning the annual calendar. It’s time now for us to have a closer look at this elegant, complex yet surprisingly discreet new PanoMaticCalendar, in its non-limited red gold edition. And not only this watch features a new display and a new movement, but it’s also the first-ever annual calendar of the brand – and this is a complication we’ve always deeply appreciated here, at MONOCHROME. Things have changed recently, as Glashütte Original released the PanoMaticCalendar. Probably the most emblematic and distinctive range of watches produced by the Saxon manufacture, the Pano collection has seen many different complications – power reserve, moon phase, retrograde chronograph or inverted movement to name a few – but never before the brand worked on a calendar watch.
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