Zurich Worldtimer True Blue

From NOMOS Glashutte -

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Many of us have been sitting on this one to clear quarantine, and today is the day so here you go -

Ahoy Atlantik

The big splash for NOMOS Glashutte last year was the Ahoi.  Well, because you should never swim without your "buddy" -

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Available as a time only model…

NOMOS is all wet

And so the folks from Glashutte have now come up with something you can splash around with. 

Tangente Sommerparty from NOMOS

One of the WEMPE 100, this is one of my all time favorite NOMOS limited editions -

This particular model was released in 2005 - I believe but welcome anyone with a more correct date to set me straight.  The simple, straight forward design of the NOMOS Tangente, with a splash of color!

I know for some of you out there Summer seems like a million years away, but I promise it's coming.

As you have seen, I'm doing one or two NOMOS posts a day regarding their limited editions (the colorful, fun ones), with the sincere hope that something similarly fun is coming!

Enjoy your watches!

First and Second Place for NOMOS Glashütte

The results are in for the “Goldene Unruh” (“Golden Balance Wheel”) awards. 

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The Tangomat Datum received 4890 votes to claim first place in the up-to-2,500 Euro price category.

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The Zürich braungold (with nearly 4000 votes) was runner up in the under-5,000-Euro category.  The first place award went to a watch from Tag Heuer.

The Tangente Datum Wins GOOD DESIGN Award

The GOOD DESIGN Award came into being in 1950 when Charles and Ray Eames, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., and one of my personal favorite designers - Eero Saarinen awarded the first GOOD DESIGN prize in Chicago.

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The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies in Dublin.  

NOMOS Glashuette Tetra Erzgebirgsperle - Crantastic!

This is the Tetra Erzgebirgsperle from NOMOS Glashuette.  Or to us in the non-German speaking world - the Tetra Cranberry!  My Grandmother spent a lifetime working for Ocean Spray, so I still find myself waking up some mornings "craving the wave"!  For those of you who didn't grow up with US television that is a reference to wanting a cold glass of cranberry juice ; )

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Movement: α (Alpha)—manufactory caliber with manual winding

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Movement: α (Alpha)—manufactory caliber with manual winding
Diameter: 10 ½ lines (23.3 mm)
Movement height: 2.6 mm
Power reserve: ca. 43 hours

Characteristics: Decentralized 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.

Case: stainless steel, bipartite; size 29.5 by 29.5 mm; steel back, height 6.15 mm; fixed with four screws

Dial: galvanized, lacquered
Hands: lacquered
Reference number 482

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iF Design Award for NOMOS Glashütte

Nice guys often do finish first!  And here is another great example!

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Here's the news, straight from Glashütte -

Out of more than 3000 products, NOMOS Glashutte was able to win over the 49 members of the international jury with its Tangomat GMT Plus.

The special feature of this watch, which is based on the design of the classic Tangente
timepiece, is a second time zone and a new dial.  The designers of this unusual wristwatch with its automatic winding mechanism have  focused on an especially clear and legible dial and simple operation. Inside the watch, the NOMOS movement Xi provides optimal accuracy.
The iF design awards are amongst the most prestigious international design prizes, honoring
what are officially designated “Symbols of the Modern Age.”

NOMOS Glashutte’s Zurich automatic watch received such an award in 2012. The Glashutte manufactory is delighted to add the latest prize to an already long list of awards for NOMOS’ Tangente / Tangomat family: For the Tangomat GMT (“Wristwatch of the Year 2012”) and its siblings in the NOMOS catalog, the iF product design award is the 47th award since the year
2000.

Movement: ξ (Xi)—manufactory caliber with automatic winding and world time indicator

Case: stainless steel, five parts; diameter 40 mm; domed sapphire crystal glass;
sapphire crystal glass back, height 10.85 mm
Water resistant to 3 atm


Dial: galvanized, white silver-plated, time conversion disc at nine o’clock (i.e. an
indicator showing the amount of hours that separate us from our home time) and
24-hour indicator

Hands: steel, tempered blue

Strap: Horween Shell Cordovan

Reference number 637

Congratulations to everyone at NOMOS Glashütte!

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Manufacturer...

We all have, to some extent, a fairly grand and exalted opinion of what the inside of a true manufacturer must look like.  Sometimes that image is sold and packaged as part of a luxury image, and you almost expect the watch makers to be offered a hot towel and champagne as they arrive to start the day, emerging from their Bentleys.  I think in all of the hype and noise about luxury- what it is and what it means... we've lost sight of actual watch making and the real people who do this for a living.

I was shown this picture at BaselWorld by the folks at NOMOS, and this to me really summed it up -

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It's nice to remember that real people are actually still making real watches.