A Stellar Moment of Glashütte Watchmaking Art: PanoMaticLunar Anniversary Edition

When the art of watchmaking established itself in Glashütte 180 years ago, observing the night sky formed the basis for calculating the time on earth. However, the course of the stars served not only as a reference, but also as an incentive to produce ever more accurate, reliable and beautiful timepieces. This competition with the stars still inspires Glashütte Original today. In its anniversary year 2025, the manufactory is presenting a watch that symbolically unites the twinkling celestial bodies with the precision of Glashütte fine mechanics. Sparkling aventurine serves as the base material for the dial as well as for a classic moon phase display. Bearing the accumulated experience of 180 years, a mechanical in-house movement provides the heartbeat for an extraordinary watch: the limited PanoMaticLunar Anniversary Edition.

The stars must have been favourably aligned when the first watchmakers settled in the small town of Glashütte in Saxony, laying the foundations for a unique success story. Despite the many hardships the people of Glashütte would face over the following 180 years, the local watchmaking industry not only proved to be extremely resilient, but also transformed adversity into innovation – pushing the boundaries of what was technically possible. To mark time with precision, Glashütte watchmakers once sought guidance from the stars. But as early as the 1870s, they succeeded in developing timepieces that were more accurate than the time could be determined astronomically on site. A new, reliable and extremely accurate source of time had to be found. For this reason, a telegraphic connection to the observatory in Berlin was established in 1880 – one of the first telegraph lines within the region – in order to transmit a time signal to Glashütte once every week and thus usher in a new era of precision.