As the tenth anniversary of the NOMOS Metro approaches, the model’s original designer, Mark Braun, returns to the design to create three 33mm ladies watches with colourful dials inspired by New York’s metropolitan landscape.
NOMOS Glashütte Metro 33 Watches - Credit NOMOS
The NOMOS Glashütte Metro collection was first launched in 2014, designed to capture the zeitgeist of the metropolitan landscape. The inaugural model, with its power reserve indicator, large date display and details in mint green and red, was awarded a number of design prizes in a short space of time. I always remember it as the watch with hands shaped like the Empire State Building – and yes, that’s intentional.
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Next year will mark the ten-year anniversary of the collection, and starting us off early, Braun returns with three new NOMOS Metro 33 watches with dials in silver, muted red or sage green. Each dial colour has been specifically chosen to represent images of the big city: gleaming facades (all silver), red brick buildings like those found in Brooklyn (muted red) and the greenery of Central Park and the Statue of Liberty (sage green).
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It’s a beautiful selection of dial colours, all offering something completely new for the Metro family. Attention to detail is never far away from NOMOS, and that’s clear yet again with the clever detailing on the differing dials. The Metro 33 in muted red pairs its brickhouse-inspired backdrop with a seconds hand and minute markers in pink while the Metro 33 sage delivers them then in yellow. The Metro 33 silver is completely monochromatic with everything in crisp white and silver.
Mark Braun comments on the new versions of the Metro:
“These three smaller models successfully express what my original Metro was able to express for me in 2014. For me, they are what I understand by contemporary elegance: smart, playful, and full of energy.”
NOMOS Glashütte Metro 33 Watches - Credit NOMOS
The rest of the specs for the new NOMOS Metro 33 watches follow in the footsteps of their larger counterparts. They have double curved sapphire crystal glass and minimalistic stainless steel cases with wired lugs and quick-change spring bars for easy change of the grey vegan velour leather straps. At 3 o’clock, the signature Metro crown with its diamond knurling provides a simple 30 metre water resistant rating. Dimensions lie at 33mm wide, 7.7mm tall with a lug-to-lug width of 40mm.
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Housed inside the NOMOS Glashütte Metro 33 watches is the brand’s well-known in-house Alpha manual winding movement. It has 17 jewels and a power reserve of up to 43 hours. Like usual, NOMOS gives you the chance to purchase the Metro 33 with or without a sapphire crystal glass back – the latter adding a small premium to the retail price. If you choose an exhibition case back, you’ll be able to see movement and its tempered blue screws and rhodium-plated surfaces with Glashütte ribbing.
The NOMOS Metro 33 watches are available from October 19, 2023.
NOMOS Glashütte Metro 33 Watches - Credit NOMOS
Technical Specifications:
- Brand: NOMOS Glashütte
- Model: Metro 33
- Price: TBC
- Material: Stainless steel
- Movement: Alpha, in-house manual winding
- Complications: Hours, minutes, small seconds
- Dial: Silver, muted red, sage green
- Size: 33mm wide, 7.7mm tall
- When the reviewer would personally wear it: I love NOMOS and I’d happily wear test any of the Metro models in this size. They’d suit my small wrists nicely and would no doubt feel easy to wear as a day-to-day timepiece.
- A friend we’d recommend it to first: Another watch wearer with small wrists.
- Best characteristics of the watch: The dial colours are lovely, especially the silver. I’m intrigued to see what this looks like in person.
- The worst characteristics of the watch: I rarely have anything bad to say about NOMOS, sorry!
