Credits: Article and images by Bhanu Chopra @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/nomos-club-sport-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.
Credits: Article and images by Bhanu Chopra @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/nomos-club-sport-neomatik/
