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NOMOS Club Series 791 Watch This niche world time watch surprisingly evokes a Patek Philippe feel!

When German watches are mentioned today, A. Lange & Söhne and Glashütte Original immediately come to mind. However, compared to these two renowned names, Nomos, also with pure German watchmaking heritage, is like a breath of fresh air in the watchmaking world, quietly shining brightly in Glashütte, a historic German watchmaking center. The Nomos Club Sport Series world time watch we're discussing perfectly embodies the quiet yet dynamic side of German watchmaking!

Since launching its first series in 1992, Nomos has been highly favored for its minimalist design, excellent movements, unique charm, and light style. Especially after Nomos began using in-house movements in 2005, it gained even more acclaim. Today, Nomos is not only young, fashionable, and energetic, but also distinctly German while remaining unconventional. In recent years, in particular, Nomos has gradually shed its traditional Bauhaus style, moving towards a more sporty and bold design. The Club Sport series best exemplifies this change.

Nomos' Club Sport series was first launched in 2021, with its debut being a 42mm sports watch featuring 300-meter water resistance and a calendar function. Later, 37mm, 39mm, and 34mm versions were released. The overall design philosophy is to upgrade the colorful entry-level Campus series, creating a more powerful and durable sports watch. The addition of a world time function undoubtedly enhances the series' practicality. Nomos' Club Sport world time watch, upon its release last year, quickly gained popularity thanks to its vibrant dial colors, slim profile, and user-friendly world time function.

While there are many watches with world time functions nowadays, the Nomos Club Sport world time watch is arguably the best in the 40,000 RMB price range, comparable to Patek Philippe. I've said it many times before: whether it's dual time zone or world time, the most crucial thing is that the main hour hand must display the local time, while the 24-hour hand displays your home time. This is because only in this way can you easily see the time when you arrive in a new location, and the watch won't stop when you need to adjust it. If this display method is reversed, I believe you wouldn't take it on a long trip a second time. This Nomos world time watch not only clearly addresses this key issue, but its operation is also remarkably similar to Patek Philippe!

As we all know, Patek Philippe is currently the best world time watch in the world. When you arrive in a new location, simply press the button at the 10 o'clock position to set your city to 12 o'clock; you don't even need to remove the crown. Even without pressing it, the time for the entire world is displayed on the dial. While Nomos' world time watch doesn't display global time simultaneously like Patek Philippe, or even function as a high-end dual-time watch, its local time adjustment mechanism—simply pressing the button at 2 o'clock to synchronize the main hour hand with the city's time zone and set the local time to 12 o'clock—does evoke a Patek Philippe feel. The hidden button at 8 o'clock is used to synchronize with the main hour hand during time calibration.

Besides its functionality, the watch's slim profile is another major highlight. It has a diameter of 40mm and a thickness of only 9.9mm. This thickness is not only thinner than other Nomos watches of its kind, but also thinner than most automatic world time watches on the market, and yet it's priced significantly higher. In addition to its slim design, its screw-down crown provides 100-meter water resistance. The red warning ring indicating whether the crown is properly tightened further demonstrates this German watch brand's meticulous attention to detail and thoughtful design.

The watch's slim profile is largely thanks to its new in-house DUW 3202 automatic movement! As Nomos' third Neomatek movement, it not only features the Neomatek movement's signature horizontal balance bridge and Nomos's signature meticulous finishing, but its 4.75mm thickness is also a full 0.95mm thinner than the DUW 5201 movement used in the Zurich world time series. If there's any drawback, it's that its 42-hour power reserve is slightly short by today's standards.