Experience the Alluring Vibrancy of the 2026 Glashütte Original Sixties Chronograph Annual Edition

The Glashütte Original brand, hailing from Germany, continues to captivate watch enthusiasts with its innovative annual offers. Every year, one of its vintage-inspired designs from the Sixties collection gets a fresh, novel colorway makeover. This year, the Sixties Chronograph Annual Edition dazzles with a brilliantly unconventional purple dial, brought to life in-house at their dialmaking facility in Glashütte. Produced through a stamping process for the bronze dial base, this 2026 edition opts for the distinctive textured dial that has accompanied a few of the past Sixties models. Following a galvanic coating process, a gold layer is added to the base dial before the purple lacquer is hand-applied. The color is then set by firing at high temperatures. What sets this design apart from others is the absence of applied hour indices. Instead, the now purple lacquer dial is hand-engraved to reveal strips of the bronze base, functioning as the markers. Gold-plated hands paired with the bronze indices add warmth, while the stylized numerals at twelve and six o’clock preserve the vintage feel. Revel in the large 42mm diameter case, with a lug to lug of 48.5mm, and a thickness of 12.4mm, sandwiched by two sapphire crystals. With the exhibition caseback, one can marvel at the Calibre 39-34 automatic chronograph movement powering the watch, with a power reserve of 40 hours and a frequency of 28,800 VpH. The talented Glashütte Original craftspeople ensure a Dubois Dépraz chronograph module that fits perfectly on top of a Glashütte Original time-only base, while maintaining the standard Glashütte Original level of finishing. Demonstrating an uncompromising approach to watch design, Glashütte Original is not afraid to explore the funkier side of design variables, using Annual Editions as an exciting platform to play with fun and unusual colorways. While the slightly smaller 39mm time-only Sixties design may be more to some people’s taste, discerned collectors prefer the larger chronograph model. Among its timeless charms is a surprisingly small caliber compared to the diameter of the case, signaling potential for smaller diameter chronographs or a fully integrated chronograph caliber.