Tiny Things from the Ore Mountains NOMOS Glashütte: The hour star-wheel
(04/2011) When our workers in NOMOS’ production halls mill, use a lathe, drill, or cut threads, a waste product is metal shavings so small that they can hardly be seen. And the workpieces that are the primary product are hardly larger: 0.4 millimeters in diameter or 0.8 millimeters long – dimensions like those of a computer monitor pixel, an eyelash, or a freckle are normal at NOMOS.