Saxony's Muglitz Valley is home to one of the world's most storied watchmakers; Glashutte Original has been manufacturing extraordinary watches for more than 160 years.
The Glashutte Original Senator Rattrapante is a stunning example of the quality of design and implementation coming from the Glashutte workshops. The rattrapante, of course, is a complication that allows for the tracking of split times. When the chronograph is activated, two seconds hands begin to trek around the dial in unison. Another push and one of the hands is stopped in its tracks to record a split time while the other continues on unimpeded. Simple enough to describe - much more difficult to implement if you're the watchmaker.
The Senator Rattrapante uses the Glashutte Original Caliber 99-01 movement. It's a manually wound powerplant that has 47 jewels and beats at 28,800 vph.
The dial of the Rattrapante is really nicely designed. A slate gray field creates the perfect backdrop for the bright markers, hands, and subdials. Blue hands on the subdials (subsidiary seconds in the left upper quadrant and a 30 minute totaler in the right) and a red split second hand that compliments the arabic numbers on the seconds rail combine to make the Glashutte Senator one of the most eye catching rattrapante watches in production. At 4 o'clock is Glashutte's famous big date display - one of the most well executed and legible in all of watchmaking.
The 42mm platinum case (15mm thick) is perfectly finished and seriously present on your wrist. The crown is adorned with an onyx cabochon that, while unusual for Glashutte, provides the ideal finishing touch.
Shod in a very comfortable black crocodile strap that's secured with a signed buckle, the Glashutte Senator Rattrapante is limited to 100 pieces and offered for $55,000 USD.
