Introducing: Nomos Glashütte Introduces The Club Sport Worldtimer In Eight Colors

What We Know

If there’s one launch from last year’s Watches and Wonders to remember, Nomos Glashütte’s Tangente 38 Date collection, with its whopping 31 limited edition colorways and dial names like “Super Sardine” and “Rambazamba,” certainly was a top contender.

While a release like that is hard to beat, this year Nomos gives the collectors something new with the first Club Sport model with a worldtime complication, and still manages to throw in a few limited edition colors on top. The Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer is introduced into the standard collection with two models — a silver dial and a dark blue dial. Each comes with red and blue accents in different capacities — a red line at the 12 o’clock periphery highlights the current city for the local time. Dial markings on the printed minute track indicate the differences between time zones, letting you quickly calculate the time in other cities.

Accompanying the small seconds subdial, a 24-hour subdial at 3 o’clock shows the local time in a 24-hour display. Different colors serve as day/night markings depending on the dial color. While both silver and blue dials are galvanized and feature sunburst brushing, the blue dial continues its dial color and finishing to the city ring, while the silver dial has a contrasting blue city ring with a matte finish.

A pusher at 2 o’clock rotates the city ring and also moves the hour hand forward in increments of an hour, letting the wearer quickly adjust to the local time when traveling. A recessed pusher at 8 o’clock helps reset the local time in the 24-hour subdial. This is, of course, all tied to the in-house DUW 3202 caliber, an automatic winding movement with 42 hours of power reserve. The impressively thin 4.8mm caliber, decorated with Glashütte striping, blued screws, and a rotor with a small globe engraving, keeps the 40mm steel case at an impressive case height of 9.9mm. Even with the pushers, the water resistance remains consistent with the rest of the Club Sport line at 100m. The watch comes on the Club Sport bracelet with a twin-trigger deployant clasp.

In addition to these two models, the brand is also releasing six limited-edition colorways as a bit of a tribute to last year’s great dial bonanza. They are the Canyon, Dune, Glacier, Jungle, Magma, and Volcano dials. Just like on many of the other color palettes we see from the brand, the dials are quite eccentric and feature accents that shake up what could otherwise have been quite staid designs. This also means that the colors won’t be for everyone, but for those like me who love it when Nomos does stuff that’s just a tiny bit weird, these are perfect.

The Nomos Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer is available starting this month. The limited edition colorways are produced in a run of 175 pieces each and are priced the same as the regular production models at $4720.

What We Think

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a worldtimer from Nomos. In fact, the Zürich worldtimer has been a mainstay of the brand’s collection for years now, and has remained one of the more premium offerings from the brand. With the new Club Sport Worldtime, the new caliber is thinner while preserving the same functionality as the DUW 5201 found in the Zürich, and offers a much less formal design, making this new watch perfect for the casual traveler. It’s also priced quite a bit lower than the Zürich, even with the metal bracelet, and I think that makes this new Club Sport Worldtime a value proposition at this price point, under five thousand dollars. Similar options at this price point mostly don’t have this watch’s all-situations-ready construction and certainly do not have calibers that are finished as well. If there’s anything that’s missing from the Zürich, it’s a little bit of that charming elegance, with the 24-hour subdial being quite large on the dial. But functionally, it makes sense not to diminish the indicator too much. 

If there’s one small wish I have, it’s that one of the two regular production models didn’t have so much blue. With the true blue dial variant, I would have loved to see the silver dial maybe double down and go monochromatic, offering something that would have felt very different. But at the same time, this is just the first year for the Club Sport Worldtimer, and if there’s anything Nomos does best, it’s iterating on colors for future releases. So I’ll keep my fingers crossed, but in the meantime, I’m really eager to see these six limited edition colorways in person and see how they look in the metal. The watches, like many of the other value-packed Club offerings, continue to impress from specs alone, and I think the real-life executions will be very fun to see. Stay tuned!

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The Basics

Brand: Nomos Glashütte
Model: Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer
Reference Number: Ref. 790 (Blue); 791 (Silver); 790.S1 (Volcano); 790.S2 (Jungle); 790.S3 (Canyon); 790.S4 (Glacier); 790.S5 (Magma); 790.S6 (Dune)

Diameter: 40mm
Thickness: 9.9mm
Case Material: Stainless steel
Dial Color: Various
Indexes: Printed
Lume: Yes, Super-LumiNova
Water Resistance: 100m
Strap/Bracelet: Steel bracelet

The Movement

Caliber: DUW 3202
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, worldtimer, 24-hour and day/night display
Diameter: 31mm
Thickness: 4.8mm
Power Reserve: 42 hours
Winding: Automatic
Jewels: 37 

Pricing & Availability

Price: $4720
Availability: April
Limited Edition: All except for Blue and Silver are limited to 175 pieces.

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