The New NOMOS Color - Blue

Nomos today unveiled a new color code for their Neomatk collections -

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And as we believe in savoring nice things, we're going to show them to you one at a time.
This is the neomatik nachtblau Metro -

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I will say that the blue is quite beguiling and the accent colors on the dial itself are quite well chosen.

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Here ar the pertinents -

The watch
Case: 
stainless steel, bipartite
domed sapphire crystal glass and sapphire crystal glass back
diameter 35.0 mm, height 8.06 mm
Dial: 
lacquered, midnight blue; green print
Hands: 
rhodium-plated; neon orange lacquered seconds hand
Water-resistant: 
to 3 atm
Strap: 
black Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan, 
remborde and hand-stitched, 
lug width 17 mm; NOMOS buckle clasp
Reference number: 1110 

The movement

DUW 3001—in-house built NOMOS caliber with automatic winding; 
NOMOS swing system with tempered blue bal- ance spring. 
(DUW stands for: NOMOS Glashütte Deutsche Uhrenwerke.)
Diameter: 12 3⁄4 lines (28.8 mm) Movement height: 3.2 mm 
Power reserve: approx. 42 hours
Characteristics: decentralized seconds, stop-seconds mechanism, 
Glashütte three-quarter plate, NOMOS balance bridge, 27 jewels, 
bidirectional winding rotor, Incabloc shock protection, 
DUW regulation system, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, 
rhodium-plated surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage 

Metro 38 Datum Urban Gray

NOMOS gave us all a chance to see the new Metro Datum at BaselWorld.  And to follow it up, the folks from Glashütte have "gone dark" with this new interpretation.

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Here are the "pertinents":

Case
stainless steel, bipartite; diameter 38,5 mm; curved sapphire crystal glass; sapphire crystal glass back; height 7.75 mm

Dial 
galvanized, ruthenium, hour indexes at three, nine, and twelve o’clock mint green 

Hands 
hour and minute hands steel, rhodium-plated, seconds hand steel, red lacquered

Strap 
Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan black

Water resistant 
to 3 atm

Reference number 
1103

The movement -

DUW 4101—NOMOS caliber with manual winding and date indicator; NOMOS swing system with tempered blue balance spring

Diameter14 ¼ lines (32.1 mm)
including movement holder

Movement height2.8 mm

Power reserveca. 42 hours

CharacteristicsDecentralized seconds, stop seconds mechanism, Glashütte three-quarter plate, 23 jewels, Glashütte stopwork, Incabloc shock protection, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel with Glashütte sunburst decoration 

A Hat Trick for Nomos

Here's the scoop, straight from the source -


Three wins for NOMOS Glashütte in the public vote for the Goldene Unruh
Metro, Lambda deep blue, and Tangomat from NOMOS Glashütte are among the best and most beautiful watches in the world—and from the only brand in the public vote for the Goldene Unruh to win in three categories
Berlin/Glashütte, February 2015. As was revealed on Thursday evening in Munich, the NOMOS models Metro, Lambda deep blue, and Tangomat count among the best and most beautiful watches in the world. NOMOS Glashütte finished first three times and by far from all the other top brands in the vote for the Goldene Unruh: Metro was first placed in the category up to 5,000 euro, Lambda deep blue in the group up to 25,000 euro, and Tangomat as well in the up to 2,500 euro category. This is a premiere in the history of the seventeen-year-old public vote competition: No other brand came first place three times at once before.
“Design, design, and once again design,” explains Thomas Wanka, editor-in-chief of the renowned German Uhren-Magazin—that is the quintessence of the watchmaking company from Glashütte. “With its minimalistic, clear design, NOMOS Glashütte creates a very high level of brand recognition.” Another important reason is the extremely high amount of in-house production, which is, according to Wanka, “outstanding for a watchmaking company this size.”

NOMOS CEO Uwe Ahrendt, who was lately announced “Entrepreneur of the Year,” is stunned: “Three first wins at one go—that’s amazing. Watch aficionados obviously seem to like our combination of timeless design and best Glashütte craftsmanship. And the fact that we’re completely producing all our movements on-site in our Glashütte workshops—we’re the watchmaking company that always gives a hundred percent.”
The publications Focus, Focus Online, and Uhren-Magazin organized the public vote, one of the most important in the watch industry, as they do every year. Since November, 20,846 readers had voted, 351 mechanical timepieces had been submitted in total. But 2015 has not only now started successfully for NOMOS Glashütte: Metro has already received the Good Design Award and the iF Product Design Award in the first weeks of the year.
Since 1998, the Goldene Unruh has been one of the most renowned awards in the German watch industry. Watches from NOMOS Glashütte have repeatedly impressed readers from Uhren-Magazin and Focus in past years—and have won a total of 24 times.
Watches from the brand have already been honored with more than 120 prizes and awards in the past. Uwe Ahrendt attributes this to all the hard work of the NOMOS employees: “Watchmakers and toolmakers, draftsmen, and the designers in Berlin: We have a fantastic team.”

The Metro 38 Datum

From NOMOS Glashütte

 

Courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte 

Regular readers will recall my slightly illicit love affair with the NOMOS Metro that was released last year.  That particular model  had a power reserve function and the color theme was green at the 12, 3 and 9 o'clock points of the dial.  It was also, according to the NOMOS website, 1.5 mm less in diameter at 37 mm.

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This new version (as seen in the first photo), this new version of the Metro has only a date function.  Although it is named Metro 38 Datum, the specs per the press release indicate 38.5 (just in case you're counting at home).

The color theme is really fun and it's nice to see the folks at NOMOS riffing on the happier early models that made up the limited edition versions that were made in the Tangente and Orion collections for Wempe and others.  The "Picnic" in particular comes to mind.

The Metro 38 Datum also features the "Swing System" the NOMOS in house escapement that was announced to much fanfare last year.

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So with luck I will get to see this "up close and personal" in a month or so and promise as an exhaustive a report as I can manage.

For now, here are the details -

Metro 38 Datum

The watch

Case: 
stainless steel, bipartite; diameter 38.5 mm; curved sapphire crystal glass; 
sapphire crystal glass back, height 7.75 mm

Dial: 
galvanized, white silver-plated; indexes blue

Hands: 
steel, oxidized black, seconds hand red lacquered

Water-resistant: 
to 3 atm


Strap: 
Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan black

Reference number - 1102

The movement

DUW 4101—NOMOS caliber with manual winding and date indicator; 
NOMOS swing system with tempered blue balance spring 

Diameter: 
32.1 mm

Movement height: 
2.8 mm 

Power reserve: approx. 
42 hours 

Characteristics: 
stop seconds mechanism, Glashütte three-quarter plate, 23 jewels, 
Glashütte stopwork, Incabloc shock protection, adjusted in six positions, 
tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces
with Glashütte  ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel
with Glashütte sunburst decoration 

 

German Design Award

For the NOMOS Metro -

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Here's the scoop, direct from Glashütte -

The German Design Council has honored NOMOS Glashütte for the new model Metro. This is one of more than 120 awards for the watchmaking company—and yet is anything but routine

Glashütte/Berlin, October 2014. With Metro to the world: Only presented at the watch show Baselworld this year, an international jury in Frankfurt am Main has now awarded the model Metro with the renowned German Design Award. Metro’s design is “youthful and cosmopolitan, elegant and straightforward,” according to the 15-strong expert panel.
Mark Braun, the designer who created the watch for NOMOS Glashütte, is delighted: “The German Design Award is a huge honor for me—it’s a recognition for my design work and a confirmation of a successful cooperation with an excellent company.”

With this prize, Metro joins a long list of successful models: NOMOS Glashütte has re- ceived around 120 awards for design,
and quality. The model Tangente, a design classic and the brand’s bestseller, has won 40 prizes alone. But the newer models are winners too—such as Ahoi, Zurich, Lux, and Lambda, which have won eight awards since 2013. And now Metro joins them.

The German Design Award is recognized as one of the foremost international design priz- es, which strengthens the reputation of designers and companies alike. It honors high quality products and projects from product and communications design as well as inno- vative personalities in the German and international design worlds. The German Design Award is the ninth prize for NOMOS Glashütte this year alone, joining the iF Product Design Award (Ahoi), Red Dot Design Award (Lambda Weißgold), Watch of the Year (Ahoi and Tetra 27 Karat), Goldene Unruh (Orion 38 grau, Ahoi Datum and Lambda Roségold), and Luxe!Design Award (Ahoi).

All the same: “Despite our success, every new prize is just as important and significant as the very first one, as it is a recognition of a great deal of hard work; we are delighted about it, drink a glass of champagne to celebrate, and then simply carry on,” says Judith Borowski, responsible for brand and design at NOMOS Glashütte. 

 

Continuing to create beautiful watches that break new ground in design. “It never be- comes routine”. 

VIP NOMOS… for Realsies?

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Now as not all of us will be invited beyond the velvet rope this coming Thursday, allow me to reintroduce the NOMOS Metro.  As many of you out there know, I love NOMOS.  It was the very, very first watch I posted on this blog.  I see them each BaselWorld and this year I thought I'd finally made it when I got invited to the big NOMOS soiree at BaselWorld!

What's Cool at BaselWorld?

Behold the Metro, from NOMOS Glashutte.

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NOMOS Lambda Roségold

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And Now for Something Completely Different - Lux Weißgold

This just announced from NOMOS Glashütte -

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I WANT ONE!