Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Orion 1989, Size 33

From NOMOS

Courtesy of NOMOS
This piece was originally offered to help celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall back in 1989.

Courtesy of NOMOS

This particular piece measures 33 mm in diameter, but it is also available in a larger, 38 mm version.

Here are the "pertinents" -

Casestainless steel, tripartite; curved sapphire crystal glass; diameter 32.8 mm; curved sapphire crystal glass back, height 8.54 mm
Dial 
galvanized, November gray; stamped indexes, diamond-polished, gold
Hands 
gold-plated
Strap 
velour leather anthracite, lug width 17 mm
Water-resistant 
to 3 atm
Reference number 
326

Movement
α (Alpha)—NOMOS caliber with manual winding
Diameter10 ½ lines (23.3 mm) 
Movement height2.6 mm 
Power reserveapprox. 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

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