Germany’s Glashütte Original introduced the first version of its masterfully engineered Senator Cosmopolite world-timer in an über-exclusive tourbillon model in 2012 and has refined it for a larger audience in the years since, releasing the first steel-cased model in 2018. This week, the brand announced a new execution in a midnight blue dial with several subtle enhancements in the service of greater legibility.

The Senator Cosmopolite is now available with a new galvanic blue dial.

The new optimizations on the Senator Cosmpolite’s galvanic, sunray-pattern blue dial ? which, as the brand points to with pardonable pride, was made in-house at its own dial factory in Pforzheim ? include new sword-shaped hands and high-contrast white printed markers between the rod-shaped hour indexes. The new hands replace the previous version’s poire-shaped hands and the indexes appear here minus the earlier model’s corresponding Arabic numerals. The hands and indexes are both treated with white Super-LumiNova.
The watch’s wearer can view times in all 35 world time zones.

In addition to its central display of the local time, large small seconds subdial at 6 o’clock, and hallmark “Panorama” date at 4:30, the Cosmopolite packs an array of user-friendly functionalities ideal for frequent travelers. An off-center subdial with its own set of hands allows the wearer to view the time in a second time zone, and to choose from all 35 of th...