Nomos Glashütte
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Nomos Glashütte/SA is a German watch-making company that was founded in 1991 in Glashütte, Saxony 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, leading to the end of the company in 1910.
The new Nomos has focused on manufacturing mechanical watches with hand-wound movements. 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" and are nickel 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 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- Schmid, Hans Heinrich: Lexikon der Deutschen Uhrenindustrie 1850 - 1980 : [1]
- Design Klassiker, Die Tangente von Nomos Glashütte, ISBN 3-7643-6840-3
- Nomos Glashütte - Das große Universallexikon ISBN 3-00-018473-2
