The front is beautiful, and then I want to turn the HAMATIC over

There is a lot I like about the Moritz Grossmann HAMATIC Enamel. The black dial, Arabic numerals and small seconds display make an appealing front, and the movement gives me a separate reason to look at it. I like the combination, although my rating is 93 rather than putting it among my very highest-scoring watches.

I love Glashütte watchmaking, and this is the kind of watch that makes that bias pretty difficult to hide. It looks fairly simple from the front until you start paying attention to the shapes of the numerals and the hands. I think a clean dial works when there is enough character in those details, and there's plenty here.

The numerals make a difference

Moritz Grossmann's October 2026 announcement marks its namesake's 200th birthday. The HAMATIC Enamel pairs a black enamel dial with applied Arabic numerals, offered in rose gold and white gold. The references are MG-004000 and MG-004079, respectively, and the brand says it is making eight of each.

I would lean toward the white-gold version. The contrast looks a little sharper to me, and it lets the shape of the numerals carry the front of the watch. The rose-gold version is also beautiful; I just don't think I need the extra warmth when the dial is already doing this much for me.

Enamel is something I'd want to see properly in person. The official close-ups look excellent, but I can't tell you how the surface changes with light from looking at a screen. The same goes for the hands and the quality of those applied numerals. I can like what the photographs show without pretending I've had the watch under a loupe.

The hammer is the other half of it

The automatic calibre 106.0 uses Grossmann's hammer-style winding system. The back shows a very different arrangement from the familiar large rotor covering part of a movement, and that's a big part of why I find it interesting. I like engineering that gives me something specific to understand rather than just a longer specification list.

It also makes this an entertaining combination. The front is fairly restrained, and the mechanism gives me the complicated thing to get distracted by when I turn it over. I don't need the dial opened up to prove that something mechanical is happening inside.

I haven't verified a US selling price, so I'm not going to invent one just to put a dot on the value chart. It has its rating and its database page now; the price point can follow when there is a sourced USD number. The official press material establishes October 2026, but the exact announcement day remains unconfirmed.

This gets 93 out of 120 bezel clicks. Lange is still my favorite high-horology brand. I like the HAMATIC's black enamel dial, numeral character and unusual winding arrangement, and I would want to examine the dial, hands and movement in person before making any claim about the finishing beyond what the photographs show.