It seems like every year I receive more and more questions from my non-horologically-inclined friends about Nomos Glashütte. It’s understandable. Over the past decade-plus, the German brand has made massive inroads in building a following in the United States. This is largely thanks to a highly-praised minimalist design palate, excellent marketing, accessible prices, and true in-house mechanical movements. Altogether, Nomos has found massive success in an arena that so many other brands are struggling with: How to appeal to a millennial and Gen Z audience without sacrificing horological prestige among longtime watch purists"
Today, Nomos is the largest producer of mechanical watches by volume in all of Germany and recently returned from Baselworld 2018 with the introduction of a new collection that continues with the same design panaché we’ve come to expect. While there are many widely known facts about the brand out there, such as it was founded two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are still quite a few interesting details that not every watch enthusiast may know. Only Horology’s Finest

The Nomos R&D team is led by Mirko Heyne, co-founder of the German independent darling Lang & Heyne. All the way back in 2001, watchmaking apprentices Marco Lang and Mirko Heyne teamed up to start their own manufactory in Dresden. One year later, they introduced their first watch at Baselworld to critical acclaim. However, in the summer ...