Nomos Goes Gray with a New Tangente Neomatik
The trajectory of Nomos in the consciousness of watch collectors at large is kind of a curious thing. Six or seven years ago, Nomos was an insider?s secret, a hot and rising brand for people who were really in the know. In a watch landscape already lousy with big sports watches, they offered something genuinely different with their conservatively sized watches that sat squarely on the dressier side, with legitimately fancy movement finishing uncommon at their modest price point. In the years since, I think it?s fair to say that Nomos has fallen into a solid groove – they?re no longer the ?it? brand, but make a reliable product that is better understood by the masses now than it was when many of us were first learning about them. Their newest watch, the Tangente Neomatik Platinum Gray, is a perfect example of how Nomos is comfortable iterating without necessarily breaking any new molds.Â
The name of the new watch really gives it all away (as a watch writer, it?s alway appreciated when a watch is named in a straightforward way that tells you everything you need to know). It?s a Tangente. It uses a Neomatik automatic movement. It?s in platinum gray. Simple, straightforward, and not drastically different from any other Tangente that?s ever left the Nomos factory.Â
The gray dial certainly offers a subtly different impression than the clean and sharp silvered finish that you normally find on the core Nomos references. It?s not as bright, and perhaps veers a bit ...
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