Nomos Glashütte · Family: Metro
The Nomos Glashütte Metro 38 (ref. 1108) is a 38.5mm hand-wound watch with a galvanized white silver-plated dial and blue indexes at 3, 6, 9, and 12 o'clock, recognizable by its crown offset from the central axis, the design signature of the Metro line within the German manufacture's Bauhaus catalog. It runs the in-house DUW 4001 caliber, with up to 53 hours of power reserve. Cazador has no verified price observations yet for this reference. Its standout detail: it's hand-wound, not automatic, uncommon in today's mid-range watch catalog.
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Nomos Glashütte was founded in 1990, right after German reunification, in the town of Glashütte (Saxony), the historic cradle of fine German watchmaking since the 19th century. From the start, the brand committed to a visual language inherited from the Bauhaus: clean dials, functional typography, and an absence of superfluous ornament, a deliberate contrast to the more classical aesthetic of other Glashütte manufactures such as A. Lange & Söhne.
The Metro family, one of the less conventional lines in the Nomos catalog, pushes that Bauhaus language to an extreme rarely seen in watchmaking: it shifts the crown from the 3 o'clock axis to a position closer to the center of the case, a design gesture that breaks with the wristwatch's classic symmetry and one the brand frames as a reinterpretation of interwar-era pocket watches and station clocks.
The Metro 38 runs the in-house DUW 4001 caliber, a hand-wound — not automatic — movement hand-assembled at Nomos's workshop in Glashütte, fitted with the brand's own swing system escapement and DUW regulation system. With 17 jewels and a diameter of just 23.3mm, it delivers up to 53 hours of power reserve, a notable figure for a hand-wound movement of this size.
The 38.5mm steel case, just 7.8mm thick with a 5 atm water resistance built for daily wear without water exposure, is completed with a Horween Shell Cordovan leather strap fitted with tool-free quick-change spring bars. This is the sixth Nomos Glashütte reference in Cazador's catalog and the first hand-wound one, distinct from the Tangente, Club Sport, Orion, Ahoi, and Zürich lines already present.
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It's a deliberate Nomos design choice, shifting the crown from the 3 o'clock axis toward the center of the case as a reinterpretation of early-20th-century pocket watches and station clocks, within the brand's Bauhaus visual language.
No. It runs the in-house DUW 4001 caliber, hand-wound, with up to 53 hours of power reserve, uncommon in today's mid-range watch catalog.
No; its 5 atm rating only protects against splashes and light rain, and it isn't built for immersion or swimming.
In Glashütte, Saxony (Germany), the town where Nomos has had its manufacture since its founding in 1990, the historic cradle of fine German watchmaking.
The proprietary escapement that Nomos develops and manufactures in-house for its manufacture calibers, such as the DUW 4001 fitted to the Metro 38, rather than relying on outside suppliers like most mid-sized Swiss manufactures.