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Nomos Expands 33mm Metro Options 

Nomos dresses its Metro 33 in new dial colors, including silver, sage, and muted red, each meant to recall various urban sights such as red brick, glass buildings and city parks. 

Originally created by designer Mark Braun ten years ago, the Metro collection added small (33mm) models quite recently, each cased in rose gold.

One of three new Nomos Metro 33 models.

The newest trio expands the dial and case options for Metro in that same petite size, retaining the defining Metro characteristics such as a double-curved sapphire crystal, wire lugs with quick-change spring bars and a custom Metro crown with diamond knurling.

Braun added a few extra features for this trio of debut watches, notably the pink and yellow seconds hands and minute markers on their respective dials.

“These three smaller models are successfully expressing what my original Metro was able to express for me in 2014, Braun explains. “For me, they are what I understand by contemporary elegance: smart, playful, and full of energy.”

Inside each new model Nomos fits its Alpha proprietary manual-wind caliber, visible if desired via the optional clear sapphire caseback.

Nomos finishes each watch with a snappy vegan velour leather strap in light gray.

Prices: $2,030 (with steel back) and $2,330 (with sapphire back). 

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Nomos Adds New Size and New Dials to Ahoi

Nomos introduces two automatic Ahoi watches with a new case size and two new dial colors.

The new Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sand from Nomos Glashütte.

The new steel-cased  Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sky and the Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sand each measure 38.5mm in diameter, a new mid-sized option for the sporty Ahoi collection. And with 200-meters of water resistance, the new Ahoi models live up to their names as they can be worn on any beach and regardless of inclement weather.

The new Nomos Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sky.

Nomos assures consumers that the Ahoi is also shock resistant thanks to a solid angular crown guard and a screw-down crown.

A red warning ring indicates that the crown is not yet screwed in.

Nomos also adds a screwed-down case back that, despite its manufacture from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, remains water resistant while also offering a view of the nicely decorated automatic date caliber DUW 6101. A solid case back is also available and can be engraved at no extra cost.

Inside each new Ahoi is DUW 6101, a thin Nomos Neomatik caliber equipped with the patented Nomos date mechanism and the in-house built NOMOS swing system. A solid back is also available.

 

Both watches measure a slim 9.9mm in height, which with a mid-sized 38.5mm diameter positions each watch nicely under any cuffed shirt if need for any long sleeve attire arises during the remainder of the summer.

Nomos thoughtfully provides an anti-reflective coating on both sides of each model’s sapphire crystal, which makes it easy to see the dial’s large numerals and contrasting sand-colored or sky-blue dials. And with a generous helping of SuperLuminova, the hands and markers are quite legible in low-light conditions.

Price: $4,320. 

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Wempe Celebrates Nomos Partnership with Icy Blue Tangente 

Wempe celebrates its long-time partnership with Nomos Glashütte by adding a special edition of the Nomos Tangente Neomatik 41 Update to the German-based retailer’s Signature Collection of limited editions.

The new Nomos Tangente Neomatik 41 Update Signature Collection Wempe.

This special version of the 40.5-mm steel watch features an ice blue dial,  Arabic numerals, hour markers, and a navy blue date disk to match blued hours, minutes, and separate small seconds hands.

Those familiar with the Nomos Tangente Neomatik 41 Update might be aware of its unusual date display. Nomos displays the date around the perimeter of the dial using two markers that shift each day to frame the current date numeral.

This patented display is underscored by a second patented mechanism that allows the date to be corrected both forward and backward. While not a new feature in the watch world, its use in such a thin caliber is unique.

Nomos added this unique date display to the Tangente Neomatik in 2018, when the watch also received several updates that included regulation of the movement in six positions instead of the usual five, new decorative polishes, blued screws, and gold-plated engraving on the rotor.

Wempe will make the Tangente Neomatik 41 Update – Signature Collection, as a 200-piece limited edition, a fact that is engraved on the case back. 

Wempe offers the watch with a dark blue textile strap with pin buckle. And even though the watch is a special, limited edition of the Tangente neomatik 41 Update, Wempe has priced it in line with ongoing model in the Nomos collection: $4,100.

 

Specifications: Wempe Signature Collection x Nomos Glashütte Tangente Neomatik 41 Update – Signature Collection 

(200-piece limited edition)

Movement: Manufacture Caliber DUW 6101, mechanical, double-sided automatic winding with NOMOS-Swing-System, quick-set date forward and backward, hacking seconds, 21,600 vph, 42-hour power reserve. 

Dial: Ice blue with Arabic numerals and date disk in ultra-navy blue, blued hands. Displays: hours, minutes, seconds, date around dial periphery. 

Case: 40.5 mm by 7.8mm steel, sapphire crystal, anti-reflective non-screw-down crown, quick-set date forward and backward via three crown positions, water resistant to 50 meters, sapphire crystal case back with engraving “Tangente Limited Edition Wempe Signature Collection – One of 200.”

Strap: Dark blue textile with pin buckle.

Price: $4,100.

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Nomos Honors Glashütte Watchmaking History with Orion Trio

Nomos celebrates 175 Years of watchmaking in Glashütte with three classic watches in the Nomos Orion neomatik collection.

The larger (41mm) of the Orion neomatik – 175 Years Watchmaking Glashütte watches trio.

Student watchmakers historically create so-called practice watches, generally time-only or time and date models, and Nomos honors this tradition with the Orion neomatik – 175 Years Watchmaking Glashütte trio. 

The new three-hand Orion neomatik watches measure 36mm, 39mm and 41mm in diameter with the larger of the three sporting a date display. Each watch is signed, numbered and limited to 175 pieces.

All three debuts offer a three-part stainless steel case with a domed sapphire crystal and caseback. All also present the time with thin tempered blue hands above the domed, polished, galvanized and white silver-plated dial with gold embossed indexes.

Nomos does not recess the small seconds dial into the dials of these Orion neomatik – 175 Years Watchmaking Glashütte watches – a first for Nomos and a nod to the elegant nature of the trio.

Inside the time-only models Nomos fits its DUW 3001 automatic caliber (pictured above on the 39mm model). The larger date model features DUW 6101. All calibers are built with traditional Glashütte three-quarter plate, Glashütte ribbing and tempered blue screws, and each is adjusted to chronometer standards.

As noted, Nomos has signed and number each watch in the Orion neomatik – 175 Years Watchmaking Glashütte series, which is limited to 175 watches of each model.

Watches this elegant, with superb in-house calibers and the fine detailing typical at Nomos are rare at these prices, so expect these to sell quickly. 

Prices: $3,580 (36mm), $3,920 (39mm) and $4,200 (41mm with date).

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Nomos Adds Quirky Quartet to Tetra

“Die Unerreichbare” (The Unattainable) is the name of this Tetra with a silver dial and a small seconds dial in pink.

Nomos adds four new models to its square-cased Tetra collection, each with a dial that includes a shade of pink, and each with its own quirky name.

One of the four new Nomos Tetra watches. Its name, “Die Wildentschlossene,” means The Fiercely Determined.

The English names for the four models are: The Unattainable (silver dial with pink small seconds), The Fiercely Determined, (pink dial, silver small seconds), The Mad One (light purple with a milled small seconds) and The Capricious (a ‘nude’ tone with small seconds dial in silver).

This is Die Fuchsteufelswilde (The Mad One). And for the first time, the Tetra now comes on a strap made of vegan velour.

Each model in the new Tetra quartet measures 29.5 in diameter and each one arrives a vegan velvet grey velour strap that Nomos is utilizing for the first time here.

Die Kapriziöse (The Capricious) is the name of this new Tetra.

All four watches come with either a clear sapphire crystal back or a solid steel caseback (suitable for engraving). 

The same manual-wind Nomos Alpha caliber power each watch, no matter which ‘quirk’ the buyer chooses. 

Well established within Tetra, this caliber offers a level of technical features well above what you would likely find in any other manual-wind movement watch at this price range.

These features include a stop-seconds mechanism, a Glashütte three-quarter plate, a regulation system adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated surfaces with Glashütte ribbing, a perlage-finished ratchet wheel and a crown wheel nicely finished with a Glashütte sunburst pattern.  

Prices: $2,080 (steel caseback) and $2,320 (clear caseback).  

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