Is a 42mm dive watch on a funky bracelet what people come to Nomos Glashütte for" It is now.

By Chris Hall

For those of us that have followed the growth of Nomos Glashütte as a brand for several years, it has been interesting watching the brand tackle the question of how you expand from those mid-century design-focussed roots while retaining the elements that made everyone like you in the first.
You come to Nomos for slim, smart, elegant, gender-neutral watches with a unique sense of style and character. Cleverness on the inside, restraint on the outside. Now, the brand wants you to come looking for a watch that ticks all the above but that?s also large, sporty and more masculine.
It?s at this apex of tension that we find the Club Sport Neomatik, the brand?s first proper stab at a dive watch (launched alongside two versions of the Tangente Sport). Listing its bald attributes, it covers most of the basics: 1000ft water resistance; clear and legible numerals and hands; strong luminova and a metal bracelet. Preventing it from meeting ISO dive watch requirements is a unidirectional rotating bezel ? really, a leap too far for Nomos?s design language, although I could conceive of them adopting an inner rotating bezel with super-compressor-style twin crowns.
But one glance also tells you that this is far from typical in the dive watch world. That?s the Nomos Glashütte way; its first foray into durable sports watches, the Ahoi, was similarly leftfield. Although really, t...