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A fast growing retailer network Another 30 percent increase for NOMOS Glashütte

The past year has once again been the best in NOMOS Glashütte’s history: The demand for mechanical timepieces from the watchmaking company is growing steadily. This is how NOMOS Glashütte, Germany’s largest independent watch producer, managed to expand by around 30 percent.

A great start to the New Year Good Design Award for NOMOS Glashütte

An outstanding end to an outstanding year: We are delighted to announce that NOMOS Glashütte has received the Good Design Award for Minimatik. This internationally renowned prize for product design was founded in 1950 by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen and Edgar Kaufmann Jr.—and recognizes products that appeal with their exceptional form, function, quality, and aesthetics.

New watches for the next generation The motor of tomorrow: NOMOS caliber DUW 3001

The NOMOS neomatik series is powered by an entirely new caliber, DUW 3001. At only 3.2 millimeters in height, this motor is incredibly flat—flatter than almost everything else in the watchmaking world that self-winds and is produced in series—and extremely accurate as well.

Glashütte shows its green side NOMOS Glashütte has proven that time can be environmentally friendly too

How well does NOMOS Glashütte manage its water and energy supplies? How sustainably is waste disposal carried out? How does the company handle rinsing solutions and oils? The answer is: excellently. This is why NOMOS Glashütte was awarded the Ecoprofit seal in Dresen on June 17.

Easily excitable, seriously elegant BASELWORLD 2013: The new Orion 38 grau from NOMOS Glashütte

Gray like the skies over Glashütte, or like financial bookkeeping? Colorless, sad and dull? Nonsense! Gray is “easily excitable into magnificent tones,” as the Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten once said. Gray is trustworthy, the color of knowledge— more elegant than white, more exciting than black. And it is really catching on. Now it is also the color of a new, larger watch from NOMOS Glashütte: Orion 38 grau

Ahoi Glashütte! BASELWORLD 2013: Now there are classic hand-made watches for sports fans too

NOMOS Glashütte is launching the swimming pool season with Ahoi: a watch that fulfills a lot of wishes. The combination of fine Glashütte craftsmanship, the best design from Berlin and an unusually robust casing that is almost indestructible: this watch from NOMOS Glashütte combines seemingly incompatible features in the most marvelous way.

In gray, the watches the height of elegance BASELWORLD 2013: Now watches from NOMOS Glashütte are available in a new masculine size

Bigger, thinner, more elegant: The NOMOS classics Orion, Tangente and Ludwig are now available with a diameter of 38 millimeters—which make these watches, with their Glashütte hand-wound manufactory movement, look much bigger. The watches have grown as the way people see things has changed over the years: the classic watches—which once seemed fine on a man’s wrist—nowadays appear a bit small to many.

Original passion BASELWORLD 2013: The NOMOS Ahoi designed by Thomas Höhnel

Product designer Thomas Höhnel was born in 1973 in Dresden, Saxony. This means that he was familiar with watches from nearby Glashütte as a child. After training as an industrial mechanic, he went on to study at Berlin’s University of the Arts and the renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

Changed time zones necessitate an updating of the Weltzeit and GMT watches NOMOS Glashütte is shifting the boundaries

There are places where a step or a stroke when swimming or rowing can propel one from today into yesterday or tomorrow. But where does this dateline lie?The sun, the earth, and the stars would plead for a straight line—but since there are countries, and countries have boundaries, the international dateline sometimes zigzags. And then sometimes this line is shifted—as Samoa, an island state on this boundary, recently did.

More chic than black The Glashütte sunray decoration ennobles the dial of the Zürich braungold

The optical qualities of gold combined with great elegance and the trust that wood and earth convey to us: Zürich braungold is the name of a new variant of the manliest NOMOS watch, the Zürich. This likeably solid color also sets one thinking of warmth, power, and a good whiskey; it isn’t as hard as black, and at the same time it’s even more elegant. And that, for several years now in fashion, brown has gone well with black is all the better.

The Glashütte sunray decoration graces new variants BASELWORLD 2012: Blue-ribbon NOMOS

“Blue is the typical heavenly color,” said the famous artist Yves Klein. Blue stimulates creativity and contemplation. And blue gold? It does the same: a nonfading, deep blue that can also be called royal blue, Paris blue, French blue, Prussian blue, or ink blue.

BASELNEWS 2010 NOMOS Glashütte: New line of watches for smaller people and more delicate wrists

For many years, the NOMOS brand was guided by the credo, “Women should wear normal watches for grown-ups.” One size should suffice. Protests against this belief fell on deaf ears – until someone finally went and measured, and discovered that each person is, in fact, built differently.

BASELNEWS 2010 New edition of Ludwig - NOMOS Glashütte complements its collection

You know, we don’t really have a need for the most extreme things out there. We don’t require a multifunctional kitchen appliance or a briefcase made of sharkskin. Nor do we need 28 chronographs. Not in the least. But a good suit, a well-fitting pair of jeans, nice shoes, and a classic watch: it’s not too exaggerated to possess things like this that help us express who we are.