Nu sunt (incaLinux scrie:Joe Zawinul Sa numi zici ca ceasurile alea toate le ai tu
) posesor de Nomos, desi recunosc ca favoritul meu (telepatie sau fratie de patima, Montana?) este tot modelul CLUB (versiunea DARK = negru-antracit) cu carcasa de 41,5mm, care a fost prezentat la Basel, insa va fi ready to the market abia prin iulie...
Watches That Grow
Club, by NOMOS Glashütte, now comes in four different sizes – depending on the
calibre, with date and automatic movement, too. The reason? The manufactory’s
youngest watch has grown up
Glashütte, April 2008. High visibility vests and high sea yachts, signet rings,
hamsters and diapers, treasure chests, sun shades, suitcases and sport cars –
almost everything comes in different sizes – including the Club model by NOMOS
Glashütte.
The basic model – designed by the renowned Hamburger industrial designer Karin
Sieber – was introduced precisely a year ago and is a kind of introductory watch by
NOMOS Glashütte. Its materials (sapphire crystal, stainless steel, silver-plated
brass, rubies in the movement) – and the technology inside are very grown up (that’s
why a manually wound movement ticks inside the watches, just as in the NOMOS
classics, Tangente and Orion). Yet the stainless steel case is – thanks to its simple,
sleek form – lighter and simply less expensive to produce: at 780 Euros this watch is
the most affordable manufactory watch made in Glashütte. A Glashütter watch for
students and young professionals, often sold as “the good watch for high school
graduation” – and one that grows with its owner, a life long, up to the top floor.
In addition to the basic model, with a diameter of 36 millimeters, there are now three
new sizes, depending on the calibre inside. A. Club Date model, the manually wound
version with date. Since NOMOS Glashütte placed the date mechanism around the
movement to save on height, this watch’s diameter has grown to 38, 5 millimeters.
B. Club Automat model, the same watch with an automatic calibre, has a diameter of
40 millimeters (without date) and 41, 5 millimeters (with date). Together with the
“Ur-Club,” this makes a total of four different sizes. And since each version of the
Club comes in two different colors – with a light dial (ivory for the manually wound
versions, silver plated for the automatic ones) and with a rhodium-plated dark dial –
all with sapphire crystal and a steel back – the customer has 16 models to choose
from. The dials’ furnishings are quite similar but are not identical. They are all lovely,
though: the smaller watches are a bit more youthful and cheery, the larger models a
bit more elegant and adult-like, thanks to their two-dimensional quality. The
introductory model by NOMOS Glashütte has just gotten a few bigger siblings,
nothing unusual really. We know about this from flat screens, jeans and houses. Still:
for NOMOS Glashütte a watch that grows is a minor sensation. Appearing in stores in
late summer.
Club: overview
Manually wound calibre:
Club/ Club dark, steel back,
Club/ Club dark, sapphire crystal back,
Club Date/ Club Date dark, steel back,
Club Date/ Club Date dark, sapphire crystal back,
Automatic calibre:
Club Automat/ Club Automat dark, steel back,
Club Automat/ Club Automat dark, sapphire glass back,
Club Automat Date/ Club Automat Date dark, steel back,
Club Automat Date/ Club Automat Date dark, sapphire glass back.