Nomos Glashütte is a German luxury watch

Watch

A watch is a small timepiece, typically worn either on the wrist or attached on a chain and carried in a pocket, with wristwatches being the most common type of watch used today. They evolved in the 17th century from spring powered clocks, which appeared in the 15th century. The first watches were...

-making company that was founded in 1991 in Glashütte

Glashütte

Glashütte is a town in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Free State of Saxony, Germany, which was the birthplace of the German watchmaking industry. The city has a population of about 4,700. Historically it was first mentioned in a document around 1445...

, Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

 by Roland Schwertner.
The name includes Glashütte to distinguish it from a different "Nomos" watch-making company called Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co. (Nomos Watch Company), which imported Swiss watches and sold them under the prestigious label Glashütte / Sachsen. This firm was sued by A. Lange & Söhne

A. Lange & Söhne

A. Lange & Söhne is a trademark of German watchmaking company Lange Uhren GmbH , a subsidiary of Richemont SA. Lange pocket and wrist watches are among the finest in the world, competing with watches produced by Swiss firms such as Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.- History :Lange was...

, leading to the end of the company in 1910.

The new Nomos has focused on manufacturing mechanical watches with hand-wound movement

Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement is the internal mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face which displays the time. The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose movements are made of many moving parts...

s. The basis for the movement was, until 2005, the Swiss-made ETA SA / Peseux 7001. These watches bear the label "Glashütte / SA" and "Made in Germany", and have gilded movements.

Since April 2005 Nomos has only used in-house movements called "Alpha" (standard manual movement), "Beta" (with date display), and "Delta" (with date and power reserve display). These new movements are labelled "Glashütte" and "Germany" (or "Made in Germany" for more recent watches) and are nickel

Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...

 plated with Geneva stripes. In the summer of 2006 the "Tangomat" was introduced. This watch includes the movement "Epsilon" (automatic) or "Zeta" (automatic with date display).

The watches were designed in 1990 in the Bauhaus

Bauhaus

', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...

 purist style by Susanne Günther and have won several design awards.

In 2007 they started manufacturing the more expensive Chronometerwerke range of watches for Wempe, a German jeweller.

Models

• Tangente/ Tangente Date/ Tangente Date Power Reserve
• Tangente Sport (water resistant)
• Ludwig
• Orion
• Tetra (square model), also available as a large version.
• Tangomat/Tangomat Date {Automatic}
• Club
• Zurich

External links

• Official website