Gold batons and the tiny gap
By Sam Okafor, London ยท
The Orion's applied gold-coloured batons are where I always start. They're short and sit right at the edge of the silver dial, and the minute hand finishes just shy of them, with a gap so small you'd need a loupe to measure it. That gap is the whole design. Too much and the hand looks short; too little and it crowds. Nomos gets it exactly.
A slightly domed crystal, 38 mm, 8.9 mm thick, 20 mm lugs, hand-wound with 43 hours. It's the dressiest Nomos and also the most conventional, which is my complaint: take the logo off and it could pass for a 1950s watch from a dozen houses. 2,600 to 2,800 dollars buys you refinement rather than a new idea.