When Heinz W. Pfeifer, the CEO of Glashuette Original, (re-)founded the Union/Glashuette brand in 1996, he announced that this brand would embody the traditional values of "the good watch". Inexpensive, solid, dependable, yet still aesthetically pleasing and quality-wise top of the notch. As Mr. Pfeifer put it into words: "Nothing what would make the watch only more beautilful, but everything, which would make it better!"
Therefore, precious case metals were not to be used (except in strictly limited series), as well as a purely optical decoration of the cal. 26-11 movement. This movement, as I have written further down in my article on the cal. 39 movement of Galshuette Original, was a somewhat stripped-down offspring of that beautiful and capable GO movement.
