Expanded Update: New Dial Colors for Nomos Orion Neomatik 41 Date
Nomos’s Update series was born when the Glashütte, Germany-based watchmaker outfitted three of its flagship models ? the Tangente, Ludwig, and Orion ? with new, self-winding calibers with integrated date functions, replacing the manually wound movements of their predecessors. This fall, Nomos grows the series with the addition of two colorful new dial options in the Orion neomatik family: one in midnight blue, the other in olive green.
NOMOS Orion neomatik 41 date in midnight blue (Ref. 363)
Like the original, white-silvered-dial version of the Orion neomatik 41 date (“neomatik” describes watches with an automatic movement, “41” refers to the case diameter, and “date,” to the model’s signature small complication), the new watches have stainless steel cases with a notably slender profile ? just 9.4 mm thick ? and a dial with simple stamped indices, rhodium-plated (on the midnight blue dial) or gold-plated (on the olive green dial) hands, small seconds subdial at 6 o’clock, and date window at 3 o’clock. The midnight blue features rhodium-plated hands and indices.
Inside both watches is the Nomos Caliber DUW 6101, the micromechanical foundation upon which the “Update” series is built. Its use in the Orion models is especially noteworthy because the Orion, Nomos’s first family of watches that goes back to the company’s founding in 1992, was long known for housing solely manual-winding movements...
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