Ostensibly for graduates, the NOMOS Club Campus and Club 38 Campus watch collections will undoubtedly attract enthusiasts with any degree of education in watch appreciation.
NOMOS in 2017 adds two steel-cased models to its existing entry-level Club collection. Where previous Club offerings editions featured either manual or automatic movements, this new edition exclusively features the NOMOS caliber (a)Alpha, the firm’s first in-house movement originally made in 2005. And unlike earlier Club models, the dials on the new Club Campus collections combine Roman and Arabic numerals, all of which newly glow brightly in the dark with a generous coating of SuperLuminova.
One of the 2017 models, called Club Campus, features white-dialed watches replica measuring 36mm in diameter. The other, Club 38 Campus, offers 38mm cases and a choice of a white dial or a darker ruthenium-shade dial (on the Nacht (night) model).
NOMOS considers the larger Club 38 Campus collection the more ‘masculine’ of the new iterations, in part due to its size, but also because the Nacht model offers a blue outline around the numerals, the darker dial and an anthracite-colored velour leather strap.
All three models feature the familiar curved NOMOS Club case with curved sapphire crystal and a stainless steel caseback. On the smaller model, Club Campus, you’ll find a white silver-plated dial with hour numerals and indexes glowing blue in the dark and a red outline around the numerals. The strap for this model is beige velour leather. Prices: $1,500 (Club Campus) and $1,650 (Club 38 Campus and Club 38 Campus Nacht).
Specifications: NOMOS Club 38 Campus & Campus Nacht
CASE
38.5mm stainless steel, bipartite; curved
sapphire crystal glass and screwed steel
back; height 8.25 mm
DIAL
(Campus 38): Galvanized, white silver-plated; Roman
and Arabic hour numerals and indexes
with SuperLuminova gray (blue
phosphorescent), red outline
(Campus 38 Nacht) Galvanized, rhuthenium-plated;
Roman and Arabic hour numerals and
indexes with SuperLuminova beige (blue
phosphorescent), blue outline
HANDS
Rhodium-plated hour and minute
hands with superluminova inlay (blue
phosphorescent); neon-orange seconds hand
WATER-RESISTANT
to 100 meters
STRAP
Anthracite velour leather, lug width 20 mm
MOVEMENT
α (Alpha)—in-house built NOMOS caliber
with manual winding
DIAMETER
23.3 mm
MOVEMENT HEIGHT
2.6 mm
POWER RESERVE
Approx. 43 hours
CHARACTERISTICS
Decentralized seconds, stop-seconds mechanism,
Glashütte three-quarter plate, Glashütte stopwork,
Incabloc shock protection, balance spring from Nivarox 1A, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel with Glashütte sunburst decoration
Specifications: NOMOS Club Campus
CASE
36mm stainless steel, bipartite; curved
sapphire crystal glass and screwed steel
back; height 8.17 mm; diameter 36 mm
DIAL
Galvanized, white silver-plated; Roman
and Arabic hour numerals and indexes
with SuperLuminova gray (blue
phosphorescent), red outline
HANDS
Rhodium-plated hour and minute
hands with SuperLuminova inlay (blue
phosphorescent); neon-orange seconds hand
WATER-RESISTANT
to 100 meters
STRAP
Gray velour leather, lug width 18 mm
MOVEMENT
α (Alpha)—in-house built NOMOS caliber
with manual winding,
DIAMETER
23.3 mm
MOVEMENT HEIGHT
2.6 mm
POWER RESERVE
Approx. 43 hours
CHARACTERISTICS
Decentralized seconds, stop-seconds mechanism, Glashütte
three-quarter plate, 17 rubies, Glashütte stopwork, Incabloc shock protection, balance spring from Nivarox 1A, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel with Glashütte sunburst decoration