The Germans Made a Watch. Naturally It’s Excellent

This week on Gentlemen’s Watch Services we fully service and repair a beautiful NOMOS Glashütte watch, exploring not only the movement itself, but also why this brand has managed to stay cool while much of the luxury watch industry slowly disappeared beneath its own sequinned jumpsuit. Along the way we discuss the uncomfortable state of modern luxury watchmaking, the strange hostility many large Swiss brands show toward independent repairers, and why NOMOS deserves praise There is also: tiny screws dangerous quantities of mainspring energy blue grease several opportunities to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory tea