Glashütte Original Introduces the All-New PanoLunarInverse

Most of our readers might now be familiar with two emblematic watches from Glashütte Original, the PanoInverse and PanoMaticInverse. Both watches, hand-wound for the first and automatic for the latter, with inverted movements showing everything technical right on their dials. The PanoMaticInverse has been around a decade now and has continuously been refreshed with new colours and striking textures, but today it moves a few steps further, as for the first time the brand’s inverted movement is equipped with a moon phase display, becoming the PanoLunarInverse. 

While bringing a new dimension to the collection, the new PanoLunarInverse is based on the concept originally presented with the PanoInverse, and later in an automatic version with the PanoMaticInverse – that of inverting the movement so all the handsome technical components are displayed dial side, including the famous 3/4 plate, the elegant Duplex swan-neck adjustment, the screwed balance and refined finishes. Up until now, these watches remained relatively restrained regarding complications, being a time-only watch in hand-wound version and adding a classic Panorama date in the PanoMaticInverse. But now, there’s this new model with a moon – and one that has been greatly integrated.

Here, we somehow have the union between a PanoMaticInverse and a PanoMaticLunar, with a rather high-end watch. The new GO PanoLunarInverse is housed in a 42mm x 12.5mm platinum case, with brushed and polished surfaces. No surprises with the case, it’s classic GO. It can be worn on an alligator nubuck leather strap or a blue synthetic strap made from recycled materials and closed by a platinum folding clasp.

What matters is the dial, or to be more precise what you can see thanks to the absence of a dial. Just like its “Inverse” siblings, the new PanoLunarInverse shows the 3/4 main-plate of the movement right in front of your eyes, and it is here finished with a pyramid-like guilloche decoration. The handsome balance bridge, with the dual swan-neck fine adjustment, retains its classic position, as well as the double-digit Panorama date at 2 o’clock. What is new is the module on the left side, with a raised element to indicate the hours and minutes, as well as a sub-second below it. And in the middle is the unprecedented moon display.

Covered by a partially tinted sapphire crystal, the moon disc is made from blue aventurine (a.k.a goldstone), with two moons crafted in relief and their surface intricately 3D laser-engraved to reflect the craters and mountains. For this new model, the brand has slightly modified the movement of the PanoMaticInverse, becoming here calibre 91-04. Beating at 4Hz and storing about 45h of energy when fully wound, the back reveals the same guilloche decor as the dial and a newly-shaped rotor adorned with a domed moon.

Released as a limited edition, the platinum Glashütte Original PanoLunarInverse will be made in 200 pieces, at a price of USD 42,600. For more details, please visit www.glashuette-original.com.