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Introducing the Nomos Club Sport Neomatik
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Introducing the Nomos Club Sport Neomatik
The introduction of the Nomos Club series in 2007 brought a line of youthful sport watches with an emphasis on affordability. The models featured 36mm cases, shell cordovan straps and luminous hands for a contemporary look that appealed to a new audience of Nomos collectors. The Club line expanded to include a date complication, automatic models, and would receive a neomatik movement in 2017 with the thin Nomos Club neomatik.
Nomos Club Sport Neomatik Petrol and Polar
Recently, the Nomos Club Sport neomatik line expanded again with two new models — the green Club Sport neomatik petrol and the blue Club Sport neomatik polar. The existing watches are offered in 42mm, and in blue and black dials. The new models reduce the diameter from 42mm to 37mm for a watch size that is gender neutral and comfortable for wrists of all sizes. “Demand for Club Sport with this diameter was more than obvious,” says Sven Schönberger from Nomos Product Management. “It simply fits the times.”
The watches are paired with an ultra-comfortable stainless steel link bracelet with a polished and satinated finish and a deployant clasp.
Nomos Neomatik
No discussion of Nomos is complete without mentioning their innovative family of neomatik (named after “new automatic”) movements known for their thin profiles. Since 2015, Nomos has raised the bar for slim dress watches with the development of two new neomatik movements with slender profiles. The first time-only neomatik movement, DUW 3001, was released in 2015 and measures a lean 3.2mm in height. The second movement released in 2018, DUW 6101, featured a date complication and measures 3.6mm in height. Both movements are independent of each other and were developed by the same technical team responsible for the swing system in 2014 — Nomos’s proprietary escapement. “The Nomos swing system and neomatik,” explains Nomos CEO Uwe Ahrendt, “stand for the best handcraft and outstanding technology from the cutting edge of Glashütte.”
Theodor Prenzel, Deputy Head of Research & Development for Nomos, headed the project back in 2012 and was given a real challenge. “I only had three goals to meet in developing a new movement: make it flat, make it accurate and make it cost effective,” he details. “Typically, the rule in watchmaking was that a movement should either be flat, accurate or affordable. It took us seven years in R&D and almost USD12 million in research and development to complete the Nomos swing system alone.”
The DUW 3001 movement has achieved new levels of efficiency, with a friction loss of only 5.8 percent rather than the usual 20 percent for an efficiency of 94.2 percent. The DUW 3001 is equipped with the Nomos swing system that made Nomos one of the few watchmakers fully independent, right down to the escapement.
A sport watch for all
The green Club Sport neomatik petrol and the blue Club Sport neomatik polar, with its smaller diameter and attractive new colors, really are sport watches designed for all. The comfort of the bracelet and the sport-friendly water and shock resistance, as well as its relative affordability, makes this the ideal next buy for any collector who values the tradition of Glashütte watchmaking and an appreciation of modern innovation.
Tech Specs
Club Sport Neomatik Polar, Ref. 750 / Petrol, Ref. 746
Movement: Self-winding caliber DUW 3001; 43-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours, minutes and small seconds
Case: 37mm; stainless steel, water-resistant to 200m
Dial: Green or blue sunburst pattern
Strap: Stainless steel link bracelet with deployant clasp
Price: USD 3,610