Glashutte Original – SENATOR Cosmopolite Midnight Blue

Glashutte Original – SENATOR Cosmopolite Midnight Blue Automatic - 2020

 By day or night - the time at a glance around the world

In 2020 Glashütte Original presents the sequel to this success story; the new Senator Cosmopolite debuts in stainless steel with dial in striking midnight blue and with a minimalistic design. It is the ideal companion for all who travel frequently or maintain international contacts – and of course for all friends of the renowned German art of watchmaking. 

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The new version of this successful model from the Saxon watchmaker features an exceptionally high-contrast dial in striking midnight blue. The dial ensures optimal legibility for the wearer, anywhere in the world and under all lighting conditions.

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Travelling the world demands not just physical fitness but also a clear head. If one crosses country borders and travels from one climate or time zone to another as a matter of course, it is important to keep abreast of time.

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With the Senator Cosmopolite from Glashütte Original, contemporary globetrotters are well equipped to face any challenge while travelling. The new version of this successful model from the Saxon watchmaker features an exceptionally high-contrast dial in striking midnight blue. The dial ensures optimal legibility for the wearer, anywhere in the world and under all lighting conditions.

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nuine globetrotters know only too well how valuable visibility can be since night flights in darkened airplanes are as much a part of their life as sleepless nights after landing on another continent. And when the time outside and the body clock are no longer in sync, a reliable timepiece is absolutely essential.

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To address this point, the watchmakers at Glashütte Original and their colleagues at the in-house dial manufactory in Pforzheim have optimised the legibility of the Senator Cosmopolite's dial visuals. Even by daylight, the new, sword-shaped hour and minute hands are clearly set off from the galvanic, midnight blue dial with its sunray finish.

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Equally easy to read are the numerals, details and lettering printed in white on the different displays. The twelve characteristic rod index appliques complete the high-contrast design.This exquisite timepiece reveals all its radiance under conditions of low light. The central hands and the hour appliques are inlaid with white Super-LumiNova.

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If one's journey demands adaptation to time zone changes, one will certainly find the Senator Cosmopolite to be a reliable ally - all the more so when sleepily reaching for one's watch on a hotel bedside table or glancing at the dial during a long night flight.

Complex and well thought out: functions for the world traveller

With regard to reliability: limitless functionality has always been a signature feature of the Senator Cosmopolite.

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The manufactory's automatic Calibre 89-02 movement with 72-hour power reserve makes it possible to display the time of day in two time zones at once, freeing the wearer from the need to calculate the time difference.

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A time zone ring offers a choice of all 35 world time zones currently in use, each of them displayed using an official IATA location code representing an international airport in the relevant time zone.

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The 24 time zones that are offset from Greenwich Mean Time by a full hour are represented by an IATA code in white. Further eight time zones with half-hour offsets and the three time zones with three-quarter hour offsets are indicated by an IATA code in light blue.

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The two windows at 8 o'clock allow the wearer to set summer time (Daylight Saving Time – DST) and standard time (Standard Time - STD), and day/night indicators for both home and destination (local time) can be read at a glance. Any necessary adjustments of the date while traveling forward or back in time, i.e. to the east or west respectively, are handled by the movement's intricate mechanics.

Stylish design in blue and white

On the new blue dial, too, the central hour and minute hands indicate the local time, while the home time is displayed on the auxiliary dial at 12 o'clock. The helpful day/night indicator and integrated power reserve display can also be found here. The small second at 6 o'clock, the day/night indicator for the local time at 9 o'clock and the signature Glashütte Original Panorama Date at 4 o'clock complete the well thought-out design of the Senator Cosmopolite.

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Elegance, in its most essential form in the style of Glashütte Original, cuts a fine figure with the new form of the hands and appliques against the blue background. The dial is framed by an alternately polished/ satin-brushed, 44-millimetre stainless steel case.

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A blue Louisiana alligator leather strap with pin buckle or fold fastener ensures the new "Cosmopolite" makes an impeccable appearance on the wearer's wrist. The new timepiece is also available with a stainless steel bracelet with an 8-step fine adjustment mechanism.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 

Collection : SENATOR

 

Model: Senator Cosmopolite Blue Stainless Steel

Models with Louisiana Alligator leather strap blue

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Model: Senator Cosmopolite Blue Stainless Steel

Models with stainless steel bracelet)

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Reference:
Ref. 1-89-02-05-02-01 (pin buckle, 18 mm)
Ref. 1-89-02-05-02-30 (fold fastener)
Ref. 1-89-02-05-02-70 (stainless steel bracelet)

Case

Diameter: Ø 44 mm

Height: 10.8 mm

Material:  stainless steel

Waterproof up to: 5 bar

Glass: sapphire crystal, both sides anti-reflective

Bottom: sapphire crystal

Dial

Galvanic blue with sunray finish, appliques with Super-LumiNova

Ø display: 38.8 mm,

Hands: blue

Movement

Glashütte Original manufactory movement 
Automatic movement

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CALIBRE 89-02

Dimensions: Ø 39.2 mm, height 8 mm 
Balance: screw balance with 4 regulation screws gold 14 ct

Oscillating frequency: 28,800 vph, equivalent to 4 Hz

Power reserve: 72 Stunden

Balance spring: Anachron

Shock protection: Incabloc

Jewels: 63 jewel

Additional details: 
Automatic movement, home time with hour and minute (off-centre), destination time
zone with hour and minute (central), 35 time zones incl. ½ h and ¾ h differences,
daylight saving time/standard time, small second (off-centre), second stop, 
Panorama Date, day/night indicator (home time), day/night display (destination time zone), 
power reserve display, exquisitely finished movement, polished steel parts, polished/blued
screws, three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripe finish, bevelled edges, skeletonized
rotor with 21-ct gold oscillation weight, adjustment of rate by adjustment screws, fine
adjustment of rate symmetry by swan-neck spring

Strap

Louisiana Alligator leather strap blue AW682020325

Width: 21/18 mm

Price  From 20,700 Euro
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Also available:
REF. 1-89-02-03-02-01 - stainless steel buckle
REF. 1-89-02-03-02-30 - stainless steel fold fastener std., 18 mm
REF. 1-89-02-03-02-50 - stainless steel short fold fastener, 18 mm

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VACHERON CONSTANTIN – Metiers d’Art Villes Lumieres Gold – TOKYO

VACHERON CONSTANTIN – Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières White Gold 40mm – TOKYO 2020

    An innovative artistic craft making its first watchmaking appearance in a dialogue with Grand Feu enamelling
    Aerial views of the world’s most beautiful cities

The Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection is an invitation to embark upon a nocturnal journey above cities bubbling with creativity. On dials draped with an enamelled base in deep shades, a wide variety of powders creates a bird’s-eye view miniature tableau of these sprawling urban expanses. Traditional Grand Feu champlevé enamelling mingles with hand-applied precious powder, an art never yet used in Haute Horlogerie. The striking and realistic beauty of these timepieces opens up whole new artistic and creative horizons, where traditional skills are constantly nurtured by fresh influences.

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The Maison has dreamed up a sparkling encounter between two exceptional arts: Grand Feu champlevé enamelling, a skill passed on for almost three centuries by the Vacheron Constantin artisans; and hand-applied precious powder, a technique mastered by Japanese guest artist Yoko Imai. This unique technique has been used on a watch dial to which particles of gold, pearl, platinum and diamond powder are meticulously distilled one by one, endowing the enamel with exceptional radiance. The bright dots of light, placed with the greatest precision, compose a portrait of these broad and majestic urban landscapes.

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The light effects play across these strikingly realistic roads, rivers and famous landmarks. The Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières watches beat to the rhythm of a mechanical Manufacture movement graced with refined finishing, in accordance with traditional Haute Horlogerie techniques. After the first models dedicated to the nocturnal magic of Geneva, Paris, New York, Beijing, this night-flight across time continues over another metropolis: Tokyo.

An enduring vocation for artistic crafts

The Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection perpetuates the age-old Vacheron Constantin tradition of artistic crafts. In 1755, the very first known watch by the founder of the Maison, Jean-Marc Vacheron, already featured delicate engraved arabesque motifs. Ever since, for almost three centuries, gemsetters, enamellers, guillocheurs and engravers have been cultivating and passing on these forms of expertise that have become extremely rare. Today as yesterday, over the years and in step with successive creations, their dexterity has given life to masterpieces of the watchmaking art.

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These decorative skills have acquired the habit of echoing each other, combining their techniques with art and creativity on watch dials, and often adopting the spirit of lesser known and surprising arts such as illumination, Japanese lacquer, glyptics or gemstone cloisonné effects. In keeping with this tradition, the Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection enables Vacheron Constantin to explore new, contemporary and innovative expressive territory for artistic crafts.

Aerial perspective

Vacheron Constantin has depicted major cities – notably renowned for their artistic influence – through their nocturnal panorama. Individually applying precious powder particles naturally implies extreme dexterity, and doing so on the surface of a watch involves the additional constraint of defining an ideal altitude for each city so as to convey realistically the emotional impact of its urban outlines.

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The miniature tableaus that Yoko Imai has composed faithfully reproduce the real ‘light cartography’ of the cities, with their various sorts of light, such as variously animated districts and even traffic density! This incredibly meticulous work on the map of each city called for several weeks of research and trials on various base materials.

Grand Feu enamelling

For each of the dials, the Vacheron Constantin Master enameller first examined the possibilities afforded by champlevé in order to highlight the shapes of the streets, gardens and stretches of water. After hollowing out the gold dial by hand according to the chosen outlines, he then applied successive layers of translucent coloured enamels. Between each coating, the dial is fired at the extremely high temperature of 850°C.

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These crucial and delicate stages, masterfully guided by intuition and governed by stringent discipline acquired over time, enable the powdered glass mixed with colouring oxides to be melted, transformed and then vitrified by cooling – with the inevitable risk that the dial may crack or flaws may form. In the Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection, the master enameller has taken up the additional challenge of composing subtly translucent and dark shades in order to reproduce the singular night-time atmosphere.

Luminous rain

Vacheron Constantin invited the Japanese artist Yoko Imai to associate her art with that of the enamelling artisan. Trained by the great Japanese masters, she has developed her own artistic technique: calligraphy-inspired painting on canvas, inspired by precious powder. For Vacheron Constantin, she has adapted this process to the enamel of a watch dial, while creating a fascinating chiaroscuro effect. To ensure a faithful transcription of the city lights, her deft hands are guided by absolute mastery, unwavering concentration and a special sensitivity requiring a particular form of concentration and sensitivity.

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The technique of applying precious powders borrows a fundamental principle from the art of calligraphy: the quest for balance and purity. Using a thin stylus, the powder particles are individually affixed using a technique that remains a jealously guarded secret. The luminous magic of the completed tableau depends on this extremely rigorous approach: each fragment is perfectly positionned in its rightful place and there is no room for anything random or superfluous.

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Each of the powder specks is thus chosen according to its size and its shimmer, then worked on from several angles and with various types of light, so as to ensure enhanced radiance and realism. First of all, tiny gold grains form the luminous backdrop. Then diamond and platinum powder are successively applied to create shiny and dark effects, punctuated by pearl spangles. Their varying brightness makes it possible adjust the direction and size of the luminescent areas, in order to infuse the dial with life and warmth. On the enamel base, between the raised gold ridges, tens of thousands of spangles shine in the light.

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The particles of precious powder, all of varying shades and degree of luminosity, interact both amongst themselves and with the dark shades of the Grand Feu enamelled background. The radiance of the composition is more intense in the dial centre and gradually softens towards the outer edges of the dial.Hand-crafted during more than three months and born from a mingling of artistic crafts, each dial is truly unique.

The lights of Geneva, Paris, New York, Beijing and Tokyo

The flyover begins with Geneva, the cradle of technical and precious watchmaking, renowned for having nurtured the art of miniature painting on enamel. Vacheron Constantin was born in the heart of the town, in the St-Gervais district, where the cabinotiers had their workshops.

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Then comes Paris, the “City of Light” par excellence, a favourite among artists, philosophers and writers, known the world over for the inimitable elegance of its style. The aerial view of the capital retraces the life of iconic landmarks such as the Place de l’Étoile and the Champs-Elysées, the Seine, as well as the Eiffel Tower famed for its light effects, viewed from above and engraved in gold. The journey continues with New York, the city that never sleeps, a symbol of dreams and effervescence, where everything is possible. Reproducing it stretches the technique of applying precious powders to its absolute limits, with the highest vantage point that could possibly be depicted. Sprinkled across the Grand Feu enamel, tens of thousands of precious dots animate the luminous outlines of Manhattan Island with Central Park, the Hudson River and Brooklyn.

Then the twinkling magic of Beijing appears on the horizon. The shimmering glow of the Imperial City viewed from above carries a hint of its manifold splendours testifying to a proud history. The more intense halos of certain monuments, landmarks and particularly animated streets surround the vast Forbidden City, which remains less brightly lit and more mysterious. The Meridian Gate, the Gate of Heavenly Peace and Tian’anmen Square can be distinguished on this meticulous cartography composed of enamel and precious powders.

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Finally, the lights of Tokyo make their stage entrance, lending precious sparkling accents to the translucent Grand Feu enamel dial base, featuring a darker shade for the city and a bluish hue for Tokyo Bay. Specks of gold highlight symbolic locations: the Ginza luxury shopping district, the iconic Tokyo Tower, the Kasumiga-seki and Nagatcho political centre, the Rainbow Bridge, as well as the super-trendy Roppongi hotspot. This vibrant nocturnal cartography expresses the harmonious energy characterising the capital of Japan. Water and earth, technology and history: striking contrasts rub shoulders and mingle to create a perfectly balanced alchemist’s blend.

Horological excellence

The timepieces of the Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection are certified by the Hallmark of Geneva, a sure token of precision and reliability issued by an entirely neutral and independent body. Manufacture Vacheron Constantin mechanical self-winding Caliber 2460 SC drives a display of the hours, minutes and seconds. Visible through the transparent case-back, the 22 carats gold oscillating weight features a finely executed decoration inspired by the Maltese cross, the Vacheron Constantin signature emblem.

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Each of the components, whether visible or hidden, is adorned with finishes crafted in accordance with the finest watchmaking skills exemplified by bevelling, circular-graining and polishing. The movement is protected by a precious white gold case.The Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières collection is a horological and artistic creation in keeping with the purest Vacheron Constantin traditions. Its striking dials, like authentic miniature tableaus, offer an original view of fascinating cities and of the watchmaking art itself, perpetually inspired and constantly reinvented.

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Technical Specifications

Collection: Métiers d’Art

Model: Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières Gold – TOKYO

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REFERENCES 

86222/000G-B101 – Geneva
86222/000G-B104 – Paris
86222/000G-B105 – New York
86222/000G-B107 – Beijing
86222/000G-B106 – Tokyo

CALIBRE 2460 SC
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, self-winding
26.2 mm (11¼’’’) diameter, 3.6 mm thick
Approximately 40 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour)
182 components
27 jewels
Hallmark of Geneva certified timepieces
INDICATIONS
Hours, minutes and center seconds
CASE 
18K white gold
40 mm diameter, 8.9 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 meters)
DIAL 
18K gold dial with Grand Feu champlevé & translucent enamel and powder of precious stones (diamonds,
pearl) & precious metal (gold, platinum) filled by hand
STRAP  
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather with alligator inner shell, large square scales
BUCKLE
18K white gold buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped



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