Underestimating Glashütte Original? Revisit Its Origin and Watchmaking Heritage

However, for those experienced watch friends, this may just be a place name, but more synonymous with the watch making process in a certain region. If you want to know the meaning behind originality, you might as well look back at the origin of the original name Glashütte Original.

After the disintegration of GUB in the 1990s, only the Glashütte Original watch factory inherited its ownership, and the brand name was renamed ORIGINAL.
Perhaps, just looking at the name changes still does not fully understand the meaning of originality, so you might as well turn your attention to the many original Glashütte Original institutions. Museums and antique restoration rooms that inherit watch culture, watch factories and watchmaking factories that reflect watchmaking attitudes, and watchmaking schools that cultivate talents. Currently, there are only a few luxury lineups available in the entire watch industry, and Glashütte Original is one of them. However, as Glashütte Original's original brand became more and more famous, there were other strange sounds. If you type Glashütte Original watch on Baidu now, sometimes some devil will jump out. There are more German brand watches on the dial and it says Glashütte Original. In fact, the original Chinese name of Glashütte Original is a simpler Glashütte Original. Why should it be changed to Glashütte Original? The purpose is that after some confusing information has been generated in recent years, Glashütte Original’s original origins in the town of Glashütte Original, the center of German watchmaking, are consistent with the pure pedigree of German advanced watchmaking skills.

Another level of originality is the attitude towards watchmaking. In order to achieve all the goals of independent research and development, Glashütte Original not only renovated the watch factory at 1st Street, but also acquired the watch factory in the town of Pforzheim. In terms of movement, from gears, screws to movement base plates, Glashütte Original is independently produced, and even production tools such as molds and bases are designed and manufactured by specialized departments. In addition, in the current highly developed industrialization, Glashütte Original still adheres to the traditional manual watchmaking standards, polishing again and again, and debugging again and again, which may just make the movement parts more refined under a high-power microscope, and may just make 0.1 seconds more accurate. This pursuit of detail is also reflected in Glashütte Original's original requirements for the disk.

Finally, back to the original question, what is originality? Judging from the originality of Glashütte Original, the original definition of the watch industry is the inheritance of tradition, persistence in the present and innovation for the future, just like the MP's excellent date display watch and the MP's excellent date display moon phase watch. This is just the beginning of Glashütte Original's path to originality.