Mühle-Glashütte 29er watches

The Mühle-Glashütte 29er is a steel automatic with a clean dial, sapphire crystal, display back and screw-down crown, water-resistant to 10 bar. It shares its name with the 29er sailing dinghy, a one-design class in which every boat is almost identical, and Mühle applies the same idea to the watch: the 29er and the larger 29er Big look like twins in different sizes.

The dial sets applied hour markers inside a fine minute scale, with Super-LumiNova on the markers and hands. Current three-hand models run on the SW200-1 in Mühle's own version, an automatic with stop-seconds, quick-set date and up to 41 hours of power reserve, fitted with the brand's woodpecker neck regulation.

The 29er itself is 36.6 mm across and 10.4 mm thick and takes an 18 mm strap, with a white (M1-25-21) or black (M1-25-23) dial. The 29er Big (M1-25-31 white, M1-25-33 black) scales the same design up to 42.4 mm and 11.3 mm, with a 22 mm strap. The 29er Zeigerdatum, sold in English as the Pointer Date (M1-25-32), shares the 42.4 mm size but shows the date with a hand that turns once every 31 days and points to a date scale on the rehaut; it uses the SW221-1 in Mühle's version and is 12.2 mm thick.

The 29er Chronograph (M1-25-41 white, M1-25-43 black) uses the same 42.4 mm diameter at 14.2 mm thick. The current version runs on the automatic MU9413, built with a Glashütte three-quarter plate and up to 62 hours of reserve. Across the range, the suffix MB marks the steel bracelet and LB or NB a strap.