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Nomos Shines with Platinum-Grey Tangente Duo

Nomos cools its classic Tangente neomatik with two new ‘platinum’-gray-dialed models offered in two sizes (35mm and 39mm).

The Nomos classic Tangente neomatik is now available in platinum gray. And in two sizes (35mm and 39mm.

The pair expands the number of metallic-dialed Nomos watches just a few months after the German-based independent watchmaker debuted several gold and silver metallic watches.

As the brand’s top-selling, original collection, Tangente is identified by its thin Arabic numerals, slender bezel, coin-shaped steel case and smooth sapphire crystal.

The new pair offers a cooler look for Tangente with a new dial tinged with rhodium, a platinum-family metal that creates a sophisticated gray color. Rhodium also colors the thin hands, which match the slimness of the golden font proclaiming the ‘neomatik’ moniker.

The neomatik series refers to the automatic caliber DUW 3001 that powers the new Tangente pair.

And while most collectors will likely enjoy a clear view of the nicely decorate in-house caliber from the clear caseback, others will opt to save a few dollars by purchasing the solid caseback edition on either size of the new Tangente neomatik platinum grey. Also available with the steel back version is the chance to request that Nomos add a personalized engraving (up to 88 characters) to the back.

With the clear caseback you can observe the proprietary automatic Nomos caliber DUW 3001. A solid caseback edition is also available.

This solid caseback option means the price for the watch will differ by about $400, which for the 35mm model means a choice between a $3,070 model (solid steel back) and a $3,460 model. For the 39mm model, prices are $3,390 (solid steel back) and $3,780.

 

 

Specifications: Nomos Tangente Neomatik 39 platinum grey

Case: 38.5 mm diameter. Height: 6.9 mm (solid steel back) or 7.1mm (sapphire back). Sapphire front crystal with anti-reflective coating on inner side. Water resistance to 50 meters.

Movement: Automatic caliber DUW 3001, in-house built Nomos neomatik caliber with automatic winding, power reserve up to 43 hours. Movement features Nomos swing system,
tempered blue balance spring, Nomos balance bridge fixed by screws on both sides, stop-seconds mechanism, bidirectional winding rotor, Glashütte three-quarter plate, DUW regulation system
adjusted in six positions,
tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and Nomos perlage.

Dial: Galvanized, rhodium-plated, hands also rhodium-plated.

Strap: Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan black, remborde
lug width 19 mm.

Price: $3,390 (solid steel back) and $3,780.

Nomos Tangente Neomatik platinum grey (35mm)

Case: 35mm diameter. Height: 6.7 mm (solid steel back) or 6.9mm (sapphire back). Sapphire front crystal with anti-reflective coating on inner side. Water resistance to 30 meters.

Movement: Automatic caliber DUW 3001, in-house built Nomos neomatik caliber with automatic winding, power reserve up to 43 hours. Movement features Nomos swing system,
tempered blue balance spring, Nomos balance bridge fixed by screws on both sides, stop-seconds mechanism, bidirectional winding rotor, Glashütte three-quarter plate, DUW regulation system
adjusted in six positions,
tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and Nomos perlage.

Dial: Galvanized, rhodium-plated, hands also rhodium-plated.

Strap: Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan black, remborde
lug width 18 mm.

Price: $3,070 model (solid steel back) and $3,460.

 

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Vostok-Europe Recalls the Space Race

By Gary Girdvainis

Vostok-Europe launches into orbit with its new Space Race edition. Celebrating the years 1957 through 1975 (as etched on the case back), the watch touches both sides of the Cold War-era of the last century.

The Vostok-Europe Space-Race, quartz chronograph model.

The critical dates and the events in the challenge to get to the moon occurred in this eighteen-year window. From Sputnik to Gagarin to John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, all these events and related personalities made their marks within those fateful dates. This is all honored in the new Space Race watch.

The Vostok-Europe Space-Race, automatic model.

Vostok-Europe is a boutique watch brand based in Vilnius, Lithuania, with seventeen years on the market. They build mostly sport and recreational watches, particularly dive watches.

The Space Race won’t be the only watch in their collection with ties to space travel. The Lunokhod II is inspired by a series of lunar rovers the Russians put on the moon. The N1 Rocket and the Energia both celebrate two of the most complex and largest rocket systems ever built.

The Space Race series features two models. One is driven by a YN55 automatic movement and the other is powered by a Miyota quartz chronograph movement. The case size is 47mm by 17mm, so these are not small watches.  A K1 glass system protects the watch. With a 200-meter water resistant design, this is nearly a professional grade diver, save for the required rotating bezel.

The Space Race comes in eight different color dial options. The strap is an extra thick leather and there are also mesh and rubber bracelet options.

Prices range from $369 to $549 and are available at www.R2Awatches.com

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Hublot Golf Watch Now Available in Orange

Alongside its new 40mm Big Bang Integral and new Sang Bleu watches, Hublot last month also unveiled the Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon, a mechanical golf watch dressed in a bright orange carbon case.

The new Hublot Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon.

The watchmaker’s mechanical golf watch, which Hublot first debuted in 2017, is a rare non-quartz watch that will keep track of a golfer’s progress within a trio of dial displays. Hublot created the Unico MHUB1580 automatic movement to show golfers which hole they were on, how many shots they’d taken on that hole and their cumulative score for the round. Previous models framed the golf displays within either a black carbon or a silvery white carbon case.

Like the earlier models, the newest Big Bang Unico Golf watch also matches a high-tech fabric strap (with Hublot’s One Click change system) to the case. The resulting 45mm orange wristwatch is certain to draw attention while driving, putting – or relaxing at the clubhouse.

The new Hublot Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon offers a power reserve of 72 hours, weighs less than 100 grams, and is water-resistant to 100 meters. Hublot will make 100 pieces.

Price: $32,500.

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Piaget Frames its Polo Skeleton with Diamonds

As one of the few top-tier watchmakers also well versed in jewelry making, Piaget has always been able to combine both creative realms when designing watches. We’re accustomed to seeing technically advanced horology while being assured that Piaget’s jewelers will inevitably frame – and enhance – its creative time displays with finely set gems.

The new Piaget Polo Skeleton Diamond Paved.

With its newest Polo Skeleton Diamond Paved, a highly jeweled 42mm white gold version of the famed cushion-shaped-bezel watch, Piaget introduces the first gem-set Polo model that utilizes its next generation skeleton movement, Caliber 1200S1, which builds on many years of openworked movement expertise.

Piaget designed the new movement, here colored slate-grey, to enhance the original 1200S, itself a skeletonized version of the famed Piaget 1200P ultra-thin automatic caliber. It maintains the 2.4mm thinness of the 1200P.

Piaget has enhanced the anti-magnetic properties of the caliber while maintaining the movement’s off-center oscillating weight. And the caliber still retains a strong forty-four hour power reserve and a thirty-meter water resistance rating.

The new gem-set Polo Skeleton, a 2022 Watches & Wonders preview, is still quite thin, measuring 7.35mm thick (compared to 6.5mm for the non-set Polo Skeleton model), despite now hosting 268 brilliant-cut diamonds.

The watch comes with a white gold polished and satin-finished ‘H’ design integrated bracelet that Piaget has set with an additional 1,478 diamonds. As befits a jewelry house that works within a horological legacy, Piaget finishes the setting with a ‘reverse’ diamond set into the crown.

Price: $228,000.

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Formex Adds a Colorful Titanium Field Watch

By Gary Girdvainis

While the somewhat proforma iterations in standard charcoal and ash grey will appeal to the more conservative crown-twisting crowd, watch fans looking to add a bit of bold to their own dreams of field watches will love these striking new colors from Formex.

The full Formex Field-Automatic collection.

Housed in a 41mm hardened titanium case, Formex’s new Field Automatic takes on a funkified retro look with a modern appeal by incorporating Petrol Blue, Mahogany Red, Sage Green, and Ultra Violet dial options to create a tension between homage and “oh my”.

Rated to 150 meters of water resistance and featuring a screw-down crown and an anti-reflective sapphire on top, the hardened housing hosts a Swiss Sellita SW 200-1 automatic winding movement ticking away at 28,800 vph with a power reserve of 41 hours when fully wound.

Both NATO and leather strap options are available – as is the Formex patented micro-adjust carbon composite clasp.

Prices range from $795 on the NATO strap and to $945 on a fine leather strap. Learn more at the Formex website.

 

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