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Glashütte Original introduced the Senator Chronograph and Senator Chronograph Navigator, a pair of 41mm steel flyback chronographs built around a newly developed in-house movement. Blancpain marked the 70th anniversary of its Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe with a 300-piece limited edition recreating a specific 1968 reference.
Glashütte Original’s Senator models run on the same engine, Calibre 37-24, and carry the brand’s Panorama Date alongside central chronograph seconds, a 30-minute counter, and small seconds. It beats at 4Hz across 47 jewels.
Both watches measure 41mm across, 12.9mm thick, and 48.5mm lug to lug, noticeably slimmer than the outgoing Senator Chronograph Panorama Date.
Flip the watch over, and a newly designed skeletonised rotor sits behind the sapphire caseback, its 21-carat gold oscillation weight leaving the hand-finished bridges and blued screws underneath visible instead of hidden behind a solid winding disc.
Each version pulls from a different moment in the brand’s history. The standard Senator Chronograph borrows from Glashütte’s late-19th and early-20th century observation watches, and its galvanic silver dial carries solid-gold Roman numeral appliqués with a blue coating.
Open the case on the Navigator instead, and the reference point shifts entirely: a matt deep-black lacquer dial, solid luminous Arabic numeral appliqués, and engraved luminous hour markers, all pulling from 1940s pilot’s watch design rather than pocket-watch precedent. Even the crown follows the split.
The standard model keeps a traditional cylindrical shape, while the Navigator’s onion-shaped crown nods to the same era its dial references. Both share a tachymeter scale and are water-resistant up to 50 metres, so despite the crown replacement, neither is suitable for activities beyond incidental splashing.
Buyers get more say over how the watch sits on the wrist than Glashütte Original has typically allowed. Blue or black Louisiana alligator leather, a sand-coloured synthetic strap, or a stainless steel bracelet are all available.
A new quick-change system lets you swap out without tools. The price depends on which strap ships in the box: $16,100 for leather or synthetic and $17,100 for the bracelet, a thousand-dollar spread between the two.
Back in May, the brand gave its Sixties Chronograph its annual dial refresh, a purple edition following past years’ green, orange, glacier blue, and stone grey versions. Last month, Glashütte Original put out the SeaQ Northern Tide, a pair of turquoise-dialled dive watches limited to 100 pieces each and sold exclusively in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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The Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary case was built exclusively for this limited run, and it matches the 1968 model’s 37.4mm case diameter to the millimetre.
The Bathyscaphe launched in 1956 as a civilian-facing alternative to the tool-oriented Fifty Fathoms, taking its name from the undersea vehicle invented by physicist Auguste Piccard. The brand draws on a 1968 reference that embodies the collection’s defining qualities and is now executed with modern manufacturing.
Thickness is 12.3 mm, and water resistance is now rated to a modern 300 metres. A box-shaped sapphire crystal sits above a narrow, unidirectional steel bezel with a black ceramic insert, echoing the slender bezel architecture of the original case rather than the wider bezels on Blancpain’s current production Bathyscaphe line. Dial typography and baton markers follow the same period-accurate approach, an effort to keep the piece a faithful copy rather than a modern watch wearing vintage styling.
Only 300 pieces exist, each in its own numbered Peli case. Underneath the vintage case sits Caliber 1150, running on twin barrels for a 100-hour power reserve, built with an antimagnetic silicon balance spring and a solid gold rotor visible through a sapphire exhibition caseback.
The dial takes a sunburst meteor-grey finish with vintage-toned lume, and the strap is chocolate calfskin. Pricing lands at $18,300. The watch is on sale now through Blancpain boutiques.
The Bathyscaphe is one entry in a fuller year for Blancpain. In June, the brand released a non-limited 47mm Fifty Fathoms Tech, its first version of that model sold without a production cap, priced at $27,200. Blancpain added “Nude Moka” to its women’s Ladybird Colours line in ,ay, a new colourway with a diamond-set case and mother-of-pearl dial, available in red or white gold, starting at $43,300.
January brought the Villeret Calendrier Chinois Traditionnel, a 50-piece platinum edition marking the Year of the Fire Horse with a salmon grand feu enamel dial and a fully mechanical Chinese calendar complication. Blancpain also marked 40 years of its chef-partnership programme in June with a video series built around the Michelin-starred chefs it works with.
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