Nomos Glashütte · Family: Orion
The Nomos Glashütte Orion 38 (ref. 384) is a hand-wound 38mm steel dress watch with a galvanic silver-plated, numeral-free dial and a small seconds subdial at 6 o'clock. It runs the in-house caliber Alfa with roughly 43 hours of power reserve and fine Glashütte finishing. Cazador has no verified price observations (n=0) for this reference as of today.
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Nomos Glashütte was founded in 1990, just after German reunification, in the town of Glashütte, Saxony — the historical cradle of fine German watchmaking since the 19th century. The brand built its identity on in-house calibers with a minimalist Bauhaus-inspired design language, in contrast to the more traditional aesthetic of other manufactures in the same town.
The Orion family, one of the founding lines in the Nomos catalog, is distinguished from the Tangente by a rounder, more lenticular case profile with tapered lugs and a curved crystal, versus the Tangente's straighter lines. The Orion 38 (ref. 384) runs the caliber Alfa, an in-house hand-wound movement with a Glashütte-style three-quarter plate, a stop-seconds mechanism, and a Triovis fine-adjustment regulator — elements Nomos uses across much of its hand-wound range.
The galvanic silver-plated dial, free of numerals and finished with gold-colored indices, is paired with blued, heat-treated steel hands — a traditional finishing technique in fine German watchmaking. Water resistance on this generation sits at 5 ATM, an upgrade over the 3 ATM rating of earlier generations of the model [UNVERIFIED: exact year of that water-resistance upgrade].
[UNVERIFIED: we do not precisely confirm the exact launch year for this specific reference, nor whether it remains in active catalog as of July 2026].
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The Orion has a rounder, more lenticular case profile with tapered lugs and a curved crystal, while the Tangente follows a straighter, more angular design line.
The in-house caliber Alfa, hand-wound, with a Glashütte-style three-quarter plate and a Triovis fine-adjustment regulator.
It's hand-wound. Like much of Nomos's historical catalog, it carries no automatic rotor.
Its 1990 founding in Glashütte leaned from the start on a minimalist, Bauhaus-inspired visual language, setting it apart from the more classical aesthetic of other manufactures in the area.
5 ATM, an improvement over the 3 ATM rating of earlier Orion generations, though we don't confirm the exact year of that upgrade.