Full Set, accompanied by a display box, booklet and swing tags

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GALVANIC ROSE OPALINE DIAL
Glashütte Original is one of the few watchmakers with its very own dial manufacture, located in Pforzheim. In a departure from the more standard treatments to achieve a salmon-coloured dial, using a rose gold-plated base or salmon-coloured lacquer, the technique here is the result of galvanisation. Galvanising is an electrolytic deposit of thin metallic layers to protect surfaces from corrosion, which can be used to colour dials. The colour obtained by the artisans at Pforzheim is close to salmon but is more metallic and changes a great deal depending on the ambient light. Its chameleonic nature will stray anywhere from a silky pale pink to a richer, more intense rose gold tone (salmon).

The subtle matte granular surface of the dial hosts a peripheral blue railway minutes/seconds track with no Arabic numerals and thicker tracks at 5-minute intervals. Another novelty concerns the Roman numerals on the dial. Earlier editions often featured printed Roman numerals at XII and VI, but this newcomer uses applied blue numerals from I to XII. Again, the press release images make the blue accents far more ‘electric’ than they are in real life, the hand-applied blue numerals are darker and far more subtle. The hour and minute hands are poire-style and blued, as is the central seconds hand with its double-G counterweight.