Three Porcelain-Dial Limited Editions with the New Glashütte Original Senator Meissen

Two Saxon institutions, one renowned for its porcelain and the other for its precision, come together on a shared canvas. To mark 180 years of watchmaking in Glashütte and 315 years of Meissen porcelain, Glashütte Original unveils the Senator Meissen limited editions, a trio of red-gold watches with hand-painted porcelain dials; timepieces that are as much miniature artworks as they are instruments. While the Senator collection is best known for the Panorama Date Moon Phase, Perpetual Calendar and Chronograph Panorama Date, for this new trio, the concept is deliberately restrained, allowing the craft to breathe: hours and minutes only, with curved gold hands, and dials that carry all the visual drama. 

The canvas is an elegant 40mm 18k red-gold case measuring 10.23mm thick with a balanced 47.09 mm lug-to-lug. A domed, anti-reflective sapphire crystal frames the dial, while another sapphire crystal on the back opens the view to the movement. Finishing is classic, polished and satin surfaces in clean proportions, and practical details are intact: a water-resistance rating of 50m and a comfortable, wrist-hugging profile.

Once the case sets the stage, the dials take over. Each is a razor-thin Meissen porcelain disc, first fired at approximately 1,400°C for density and flatness, then hand-painted in multiple layers with ultra-fine brushes. Every painted layer is fixed with an additional 900°C firing to build depth and colour fastness. There are three expressions. “Mystic Maison” appears twice, with a delicate grey ornament on a flawless white ground, and the same motif on a celadon-green background that nods to historic East-Asian ceramics, each limited to 150 pieces. The third, an 8-piece limited “Collage,” reinterprets motifs from Meissen´s ‘Dekorwelten’ crater vase: vivid animals and flowers set against celadon to create a whimsical, narrative image. Across all versions, the display is pared back to hours and minutes by curved, solid-gold hands, leaving the artwork exposed.

Calibre 36-16 features bidirectional automatic winding, a silicon balance spring for enhanced magnetic and thermal stability, stop-seconds, and a generous 100-hour power reserve at an operating frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour. The movement finishing is pure Saxony, featuring a stripe-finished three-quarter plate, a hand-engraved balance cock, polished bevels and blued screws, with a skeletonised rotor bearing the double-G and a 21-carat gold mass.

Each reference is delivered on Louisiana alligator leather, dark blue for all versions, with an additional black strap for the white “Mystic Maison”, closed with a red-gold pin buckle. The Senator Meissen trio will be available from October 9, 2025, in Glashütte Original boutiques and through select retailers. Prices are USD 30,300 for the Mystic Maison, white or celadon, and USD 36,400 for the Collage. For more details, please visit www.glashuette-original.com.