For the first time, Nomos dresses its automatic Tangente in rose gold, launching the Tangente Rose Gold Neomatik as a limited-edition model in honor of the 175th anniversary of watchmaking in Glashütte.
The new Nomos Tangente Rose Gold Neomatik 175 Years of Watchmaking.
As the latest addition in the Nomos 175 Years Watchmaking Glashütte series, the new watch is a luxurious ode to both the German city’s long watchmaking history and to the Tangente itself, which has been a bestseller (in its usual 35mm steel case) for the watchmaker for thirty years.
The Tangente Rose Gold Neomatik has a white silver-plated dial with an outer ring, sub-seconds dial, and minute markers in gold.
Limited to 175 pieces worldwide, the new watch adds a sub-seconds dial and minute markers in rose gold to the original’s galvanically white silver-plated dial.
At 6.9mm high, the Tangente rose gold neomatik from Nomos Glashütte is just a bit taller than Tangente with manual winding.
And while the first Tangente series reveled in its manual-wind minimalism, the new model is poweredby the Nomos DUW 3001, a thin automatic movement adjusted to chronometer standards.
The in-house neomatik movement DUW 3001 with the Nomos Swing System is thin and regulated to chronometer standards for the special edition.
Nomos attaches the celebratory model to an equally luxurious precious strap and clasp. The Berlin-designed clasp, crafted from 18-karat gold and hand-polished, holds a strap from Horween made of thick shell Cordovan.
The Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4 won the Grand Prize at the 2023 Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Geneva (GPHG). Click here to see details and imagesof all the winning watches.
Here’s the full 2023 Prize List “Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix: Audemars Piguet, Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4
Innovation Prize: Hautlence, Sphere Series 1 Audacity Prize: Maison Alcée, Persée Azur Chronometry Prize: Ferdinand Berthoud, Chronomètre FB 3SPC “Horological Revelation” Prize: Simon Brette, Chronomètre Artisans Ladies’ Watch Prize: Piaget, Hidden Treasures Ladies’ Complication Watch Prize: Dior Montres, Grand Soir Automate Etoile de Monsieur Dior Men’s Complication Watch Prize: Voutilainen, World Timer Iconic Watch Prize: Ulysse Nardin, Freak One Tourbillon Watch Prize: Laurent Ferrier, Grand Sport Tourbillon Pursuit Calendar and Astronomy Watch Prize: Bovet 1822, Récital 20 Astérium Chronograph Watch Prize: Petermann Bédat, Chronographe rattrapante Sports Watch Prize: Tudor, Pelagos 39 Jewellery Watch Prize: Bulgari, Serpenti Cleopatra Artistic Crafts Watch Prize: Piaget, Altiplano Métiers d’Art – Undulata “Petite Aiguille” Prize: Christopher Ward London, C1 Bel Canto Challenge Watch Prize: Raymond Weil, Millésime automatic small seconds Mechanical Clock Prize: L’Epée 1839, Time Fast II Chrome Special Jury Prize: Svend Andersen and Vincent Calabrese
Planet Omega, a special exhibit of historic Omega watches, is now on display in New York, where it will remain until November 19th.
The broad-based display not only exhibits vintage watches from the watchmaker’s storied manufacturing history, but also places many of its timekeeping endeavors into historical context using six additional, distinctive areas.
The Elvis Presley Omega.
The primary “Vintage” section that displays historic timepieces on loan from the Omega Museum in Biel, Switzerland. These watches include:
–The Omega watch worn by Elvis Presley, which was a gift from RCA Records in 1960. Omega calls it “perhaps the most historically significant Elvis-owned watch to ever appear on the market.”
The JFK Omega.
–The Omega Slimline timepiece worn by John F. Kennedy at his presidential Inauguration Ceremony in 1961.
An original Omega Ladymatic.
–An original Ladymatic watch from 1955 fitted with Caliber 455, which became the world’s smallest rotor-equipped automatic calibre to obtain an official rating certificate with special mention.
Within the remainder of the exhibit you’ll find watches related to these themes: sports and Olympic Games, Ocean, James Bond, Space, Friends and Precision.
Highlights include:
—One of the original split-seconds chronographs used to time the Olympic Games in 1932.
—An original 1932 Marine – known as the first divers’ watch that was available to civilian divers.
The 1932 Omega Marine.
—Recent Seamaster “Ultra Deep” watches. In 2019, the first of these models reached the deepest point ever recorded in the ocean. The model on display is an adapted version available to customers and is water-resistant to an incredible 6,000 meters, or 20,000 feet.
—The Seamaster Diver 300M 007 Edition from Daniel Craig’s final appearance in “No Time To Die.” This authentic film prop is crafted from lightweight Grade 2 Titanium.
Omega worn by Wally Schirra.
—The same CK2998 model worn by astronaut Wally Schirra in 1962 aboard Mercury’s Sigma 7 mission.
—The latest Speedmaster “Silver Snoopy Award” timepiece, and those created with real pieces of meteorite.
—-This year’s new Speedmaster Super Racing – introduced as the world’s first watch to feature the Omega Spirate system built with a new patent-pending spiral that allows for ultra-fine rate adjustments, making it possible to achieve a certified precision of only 0/+2 seconds a day.
The Planet Omega exhibit is located at Chelsea Factory, 547 West 26th Street. Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Alpina adds a California dial to its rugged Alpiner Extreme to create the Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial, a fitting high-visibility historic design within the outdoor-adventure collection.
The new Alpina Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial.
The Geneva-based watchmaker created its Alpiner collection with mountain trekkers in mind, and launching a California dial model enhances options within the series.
Alpina notes that the dial cleverly blends Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, dashes and triangles designed to make it simple to see the time from any angle and avoid the confusion of mistaking a 6 for a 9 and adding clarity to the 8 and 4. Often used on dive watches, such dials are equally appropriate to those scaling the Alps, or just hiking the woods.
Also aligned with Alpina’s ethos, the historic dial design (which apparently earned its name due to its popularity in its namesake state) includes a triangle at 12 o’clock, which perfectly echoes the Alpina logo. Alpina has long used a red triangle to symbolizes Alpine summits, and on each dial you see one just above the Alpine logo. A second red triangle can be seen as the counterweight on the seconds hand.
The steel-cased 41mm by 42.5mm Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial arrives on a rubber strap and is powered by the Sellita-based automatic AL-525 caliber. The watch is water resistant to 200 meters. (See additional specifications below).
Price: $1,795.
Specifications: Alpina Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial
Case: 41mm by 42.5mm brushed and polished stainless steel 3-part case with
anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Water-resistant to 200 meters. Engraved and see-through screwed case-back, screw-in crown.
Dial: Black with triangle pattern, black outer ring with white markers,
applied beige color indexes filled with white luminous treatment,
date window, hand-polished silver color hour and minute hands filled with beige luminous treatment, polished silver color second hand with red triangle.
Corum adds five ceramic-cased models to its nautically themed Admiral Automatic collection.
The Admiral, with its twelve-sided case and pennant-markers, is one of Corum’s top-sellers and is usually fashioned from steel, titanium or precious metal. The new ceramic case option adds a contemporary option within the watchmaker’s Admiral offerings.
One of the new ceramic-cased Admiral 42mm offerings, here with a rose gold bezel.
Corum adds the ceramic option specifically to its 42mm Admiral series, the mid-sized watches set between Corum’s 38mm and 45mm Admiral offerings. Three white-cased models and two black-cased newcomers (one of which is a limited edition) mark the debut.
Two of the white ceramic models also sport a rose gold bezel, as does one black edition.
The two variations arrive with a matching rubber strap and gold-colored accents while two additional versions in each color sport artistic dials with pop-art markers and accents.
Of these two art-dialed options, the black ceramic model is a limited edition (of 50 pieces, pictured below) and features a luminous ‘Corum’ logo in graffiti-style across its dark dial.
The two white-ceramic pop-art version feature indexes and hands adorned with multicolored paint. One of these two white ceramic options also comes with a rose-gold bezel.
All the new Admiral watches are water resistant to fifty meters and are powered by CO 395, an ETA-based automatic movement.
Prices: CHF 14,800 (with ceramic bezel), CHF 18,000 (gold bezel) and CHF 18,500 (white ceramic artistic dial with gold bezel).
