This is not a new watch. It has been around since 2011, updated in 2014, and now available on Mr Porter as well as the Nomos website. It offers the GMT function in an unusual format, and in fact it resembles a world-time watch even though in actual fact it only provides simultaneous times in…
With Club Campus, NOMOS Glashütte have identified a section of the market – watches for celebrations – and have created a package specially for it, at an attractive price. Baume & Mercier do the same sort of thing, targeting their entry-level Classima and My Classima watches at customers who want to celebrate something, a degree,…
NOMOS Glashütte don’t release figures about how many watches they sell, but it’s clear that they are doing well. It’s the German brand with best sales in terms of number of watches sold, and in 2016, which was a problem year for many watchmaking companies, they had a 10% increase in turnover. Their secret? Simple,…
The Nomos Glashütte Tetra Neomatik, reference 421, is striking for its shape. The watch has many other positive features. Its case is 33 mm by 33 mm, which may sound small, but it’s important to consider the diagonal which is 46.6 mm. At 6.3 mm thickness, it’s prodigiously slim. It is in stainless steel, with…
Tangente by NOMOS Glashütte has been a favourite since 1992, loved for the purity of its Deutscher Werkbund-inspired dials and its in-house movements. Up until now, Tangente has had a hand-wound movement. Now it is available with a new automatic calibre, DUW 3001, slim and with a chronometer-level of precision. The dial is pure perfection,…
Company profile: NOMOS Glashütte was founded in 1990 by Roland Schwertner, who is still one of the owners together with four other partners. It is exceptional amongst independent watch brands in that it makes everything in-house, above all its movements. At present there are ten calibres. It also makes its own proprietary escapement, named NOMOS…
In the second edition of the Green Product Award, one of the Professional awards went to NOMOS Glashütte with their “sustainable watch” Metro. While the watch doesn’t seem any greener than other mechanical watches, in actual fact there is something eco-friendly here, because nearly 95% of production is conducted within the company rather than outsourced,…