We think about redesign with an enlarged and improved version of Nomos’ award-winning Metro model.
As if the world of watchmaking appeals to a different world. Although our favorite astronomical watches, models resistant to extreme conditions and pulsometers are unbelievably valuable, it is hard to say that they correspond to our ordinary life when you think about it. These watches are as if says, “We don’t appeal to people who take the subway to work and say if I go home in the evening or meet my friends.”
Therefore, we had found Metro exciting when it was presented at Baselworld 2014. The Metro model, presented by Nomos Glashütte, a young (first watch dated 1992) and Germany’s best-selling watch brand, in front of a metro map with taking Berlin to the center of metropolitan cities, appealed to people on “city streets” just like us. This approach and Bauhaus-style design soon attracted a lot of attention, collected many design awards, and immediately became a classic. 14 different versions of Metro have been produced until today.
The name behind the design of the Metro model according to the concept of “Form follows function” is 1975 Berlin-born designer Mark Braun. The successful industrial designer, who was not actually a watch designer, successfully moved the codes of the contemporary “urban” design concept to the watch, moving it to another point from the mostly similar watches of the entire watchmaking industry. At this first hour, the watches show dots with hour hand and minute hand, for example — Can we call it a pin that determines the city’s metro stations?
