What's Wrong with Esquire's Big Black Book - 2015

So I gave it a bit more thought, and I thought about some of the watches that made Esquire's list and thought about a watch that was "not on steroids", had some real horological "bona fides", and because this is Tempus Fugit, and because I own 3thirty3 - there had to be an angle for giving!

So this is from the very, very good people at NOMOS Glashütte -

This is the Tangente 38 for Doctors Without Borders -

Courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte

So the watch stuff first -

Casestainless steel, bipartite; diameter 37.5 mm; sapphire crystal glass back, height 6.75 mm 

Dialgalvanized, white silver-plated 

Handssteel, black oxidized 

StrapHorween Genuine Shell Cordovan black, lug width 19 mm 

Reference number
164.S2

Courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte

Movement 

α (Alpha)—NOMOS caliber with manual winding

Diameter10 ½ lines (23.3 mm) 

Movement height2.6 mm 

Power reserveca. 43 hours

CharacteristicsDecentralized seconds, stop-seconds mechanism, Glashütte three-quarter plate, 17 ruby bearings, Glashütte stopwork, Incabloc shock protection, balance spring from Nivarox 1A, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel with Glashütte sunburst

And now the "WARM FUZZY" -

A limited editon Tangente 38 in support of Doctors Without Borders is also available in the United States: This timepiece alludes to the aid organization with its red twelve, the inscription “Doctors Without Borders” under the six, and a special engraving on the back. 100 dollars for each watch sold will go towards emergency aid—and so helping the helpers.

Pretty cool, huh?

So Esquire, when you're done scratching the backs of your advertisers, do some reporting on some really cool watches that your readers might actually be interested in - like this one!