Building the Foundation, Part 3: The In-House Movements of Nomos
Rome wasn?t built in a day ? and neither was Rolex, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre and other watch manufacturers praised for their vertical integration and lauded for their array of in-house calibers. While we all applaud the handful of brands that bring new and increasingly complicated calibers to market virtually every year, we also should take note of other brands, many of them smaller, independently owned, or known throughout their history more for outsourcing their movements, that are taking a more incremental approach. In this series of articles, we take a look at five brands ? three Swiss, two German ? that are taking it slow and steady. This week, we take a look at the second of the two German brands on our roster, Glashütte-based Nomos.
The Nomos neomatik nachtblau collection
While Tutima ? the watchmaker we covered last week ? has only recently returned to the Saxon watchmaking hub of Glashütte, its roots there stretch back to 1927. Nomos, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer, founded in 1990, just two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Known for its youth-oriented marketing and minimalist Bauhaus designs ? not to mention its multiple Red Dot Design Awards ? Nomos began its program of in-house movement making in 2005, introducing both the manual-winding Alpha caliber and the self-winding Epsilon. The ambitious brand began following both up with increasingly complicated variants over the ensuing years. On the manual-wound side, there was Caliber...
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