NOMOS assists Medical doctors With out Borders with this restricted version timepiece.
NOMOS Glashuette
As we watch what’s occurring in Ukraine, our hearts are filled with compassion for individuals who are struggling, and we marvel what we are able to do to assist. Germany-based NOMOS has decided its path.
“At NOMOS Glashütte, we solely manufacture watches, however for the previous decade, we now have been working with the Nobel Prize-winning help group that gives help to individuals in want world wide,” the corporate affirms. “We make watches that help Doctors Without Borders—tangibly, with financial help.”
This yr the help NOMOS shares via its Medical doctors With out Borders timepiece appears notably essential. This mannequin, the Tangente 38 – 50 ans de Médecins Sans Frontières, not solely celebrates the group’s 50 years of existence, but in addition straight aids individuals in want: 100 euros from every watch goes to serving to the individuals in Ukraine, in addition to many different disaster areas world wide.
“In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (Medical doctors With out Borders) has now begun supplying clinics with medicines and medical provides,” says Anja Wolz, who’s presently working for the group in Lviv, Ukraine. “It’s a ‘humanitarian race in opposition to time.’”
Purple is the colour of Medical doctors With out Borders, therefore the pink 12 on the watch dial is a reminder of its function. The watch’s 37mm metal case has a stable caseback engraved: Restricted Version Tangente – 50 ans de Médecins Sans Frontières 1/2021. Inside, the manually wound Alpha motion presents energy reserve as much as 43 hours.
The watch is fitted on a grey textile strap, and it’s priced at $2,030.
And one other Tangente, the brand new neomatic platinum grey
Accessible in 35mm and 39mm, the brand new Tangente neomatic platinum gray derives its identify from its galvanized rhodium-plated dial, which grants a placing grey hue. The polished spherical case accentuates the dial décor, whereas providing excellent distinction.
Slim rhodium-plated palms traverse the dial, which has anthracite grey Roman numerals at 12, 2, 4, 8 and 10 o’clock. The remaining hours are marked by easy indices, and the small seconds subdial is at 6 o’clock. The one deviation in tone is the phrase “neomatik,” located just under the NOMOS brand at 12 o’clock, displayed in gold.
There are two variations in every dimension, one with a stable case again and the opposite with an exhibition again. The stable case again is appropriate for engraving, and it could possibly accommodate as much as 88 characters, in keeping with NOMOS. The see-through case again presents a view of the motion and its bi-directional rotor.
The DUW 3001, launched in 2015, is the corporate’s tenth in-house caliber, unique to the neomatik (new computerized) collection. It includes the NOMOS swing system, the in-house escapement that debuted in 2014. The unique Tangente was manually wound.
The 27-jewel motion’s slim profile measures simply 3.2mm in peak, and true to its German watchmaking heritage, it options the Glashütte three-quarter plate. It has a tempered blue steadiness spring and blued screws, with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage adorning its rhodium-plated surfaces. The DUW 3001 has an influence reserve of as much as 43 hours.
The Tangente neomatic platinum grey assortment ranges in worth from $3,070 for the 37mm mannequin with a stable case again to $3,780 for the 39mm mannequin with a sapphire exhibition case again. Every is fitted on a remborde-style strap crafted from Horween shell cordovan.
