Nomos has taken an incremental approach to expanding its various collections and lines over the past decade or so. Despite what its large ? and constantly growing ? audience has demanded, each launch for Nomos is guided by what it can produce in either its Berlin design studio or one of its three Glashütte workshops. As you likely know, Nomos has made a huge investment into becoming one of the most vertically integrated manufactures in today’s watch industry, even producing its own escapement with the proprietary Swing System that was launched in 2014. Aesthetic updates, like a bracelet option, have also been limited by this approach. Until now, that is.
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As of this morning, Nomos has introduced its first line of watches to include the option for a bracelet. The three watches announced today are a part of the existing Campus series of timepieces. Originally launched in 2017, the circular Campus models are a spin-off of the tentpole Club line for the German brand. The trio of timepieces not only are the first watches with bracelet to join Nomos, but are also the first automatic ? or neomatik, to borrow the Nomos lingo ? models within the Campus line. The previous three Campus watches were powered by the manually winding Alpha, which was Nomos’s first in-house movement. Today’s release utilizes the neomatik DUW 3001, which was the first automatic movement equipped with the NOMOS swing system. °
A majority of the details from the original Club Campus la...