Hello Senator, Glashutte Original puts a Panorama date on the Senator Sixties for Basel 2010?

If You remember it’s been three years now since Glashutte launched the Senator Sixties Line. This very classic streamline homage to a vintage piece raised my respect levels and something else for the brand if you know what I mean! This year for Basel 2010, Glashutte Original have done something I am not quite sure that I like. They have taken the clean vintage reproduction piece that was always simple and added and panorama date above the arabic numeral six which is just stupid!. This is kind of a douche move on their part because now the watch is not symmetric at all. That was the beauty of this legend, symmetry. Sometimes, you don’t need to fuck with a classic to diversify your product line, you just need to market it differently because otherwise it comes across as desperate. It’s almost like sports on TV when they show the LA Clippers vs. The NJ Nets, Really? Who doesn’t like watching basketball but to put the two worst teams on the air just for the sake of watching sports is humiliating. This is a clear case of I don’t know what the fuck to do and I have run out of great innovative ideas.

Here are the specs of the watch anyway. I think this is one that I am going to have to really try on and wear and bone with it on, otherwise for the moment it’s like Hello Senator?

Reference:

39-47-01-02-04 (silver dial)
39-47-03-02-04 (black dial)

Details:

Stainless steel case;
diameter: 42 mm / height: 12.4 mm; waterproof up to 3 ATM
Sapphire crystal (on both sides anti-reflective);
Bottom: Sapphire crystal (inside anti-reflective)

hands rose or white gold with luminous spots on the hours,

Automatic Movement Caliber 39-47

Hour, minute and second central, panorama date at 6 o’clock;

diameter: 30.95 mm / height: 5.9 mm

Oscillating frequency: 28.800 A/h; Power reserve: 40 hours (+/- 5%);
flat spring, Incabloc shock protection,

beveled edges, polished steel parts, Glashütte three-quarter plate with stripe finish, skeletonized rotor with 21-ct gold oscillation weight, swan-neck fine adjustment.