Glashütte Original Senator Excellence: Specs, References, Prices | Ultimate Watch

The Glashütte Original Senator Excellence is the watch we point people to when they tell us they want German watchmaking without paying A. Lange & Söhne money. We sit on 47th Street, we handle both German houses every week, and the Senator Excellence occupies a spot that almost nothing else does: a 40mm dress watch, made in Saxony, running a modern in-house automatic caliber with a 100-hour power reserve and a silicon balance spring, certified through a 24-day in-house test that goes past the German chronometer standard, and priced new around $8,000 in steel. Introduced in 2016 at Baselworld as the launch platform for the new Calibre 36, it is Glashütte Original's answer to the question of what a serious three-hand German dress watch should be in the modern era. The line runs from the clean time-and-small-seconds base model up through the Panorama Date, the Panorama Date Moon Phase, and the Perpetual Calendar, all sharing the same 36-series movement architecture. For a buyer who wants Glashütte pedigree, a real manufacture movement, and a dial made in-house, this is one of the smartest value plays in the segment, and it trades on the secondary market for a fraction of its list.