Nomos Zurich World Time Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Jun 12th 2010 at 12:01PM

Using their brand new Caibre Xi mechanical world time movement, Glashutte based Nomos will release the Zurich World Time watch. One of at least two new watches to contain the new automatic movement. Nomos is one of the least expensive watch makers of hand-assembled in-house German watch movements (and watches). The Zurich (why named for a Swiss city if the brand is German I do not know), is one of their higher-end collection of timepieces.

The new Caliber Xi movement is an automatic and features black gold in its construction. It has about 42 hours of power reserve and had the time with subsidiary seconds, and a world time indicator on a second 24 hour disc. A pusher above the crown cycles through the references cities on a partially exposes disc. The time for the city shown under the 12 o'clock hour indicator, is indicator at 3 o'clock in 24 hour format. Minutes for the second time zone are referenced via the main time's minute hand. A simple, but elegant system for offering a world-time complication.

The Zurich World Time watch will be about 40mm wide in steel, with a sapphire crystal and caseback window. The white dial is easy to read, contained in the tasteful, thin-bezeled case. Price will be 3,400 euros.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: Glashutte, Nomos, watch, World Time, Zurich