In 2018, Nomos introduced a number of intriguing novelties; however, the real story was not the timepieces themselves, but the new movement inside. Cased within the new Autobahn and Update collections was the DUW 6101 caliber, the first neomatik movement featuring a date complication. Before getting into the steps that Nomos took to release what is arguably its most important in-house movement yet, a look into its development as a full-fledged manufacture is needed.
The DUW 6101 neomatik caliber was released inside several new watches at Baselworld 2018.°
Founded by Roland Schwertner just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, Nomos took a gradual approach to building out its capabilities during those early years. In 1992, after two years of R&D by Schwertner?s trio of watchmakers, the first four Nomos watches were released. These models ? headlined by the Tangente ? have been the pillars of Nomos ever since and can still be found in its contemporary collection of timepieces that have grown to include 13 different lines of wristwatches. There was a major difference between the watches released in those initial 15 years and what has been revealed since. Nomos sourced Swiss movements from ETA and Peseux that were then hand-adjusted and put through final assembly at the brand?s headquarters in Glashütte. It wasn?t until 2005 that Nomos released its first in-house movements with the manual-winding Alpha caliber and the self-winding Epsilon. Since that seminal y...