Nomos Glashütte Club Campus 38.5mm Stainless Steel

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Nomos Glashütte Club Campus 38.5mm Stainless Steel

Ref. CLUB

The Club has been in continuous production since 2007, and the 701.1 is its 2023 revision — the most consequential change being the swap from the older Alpha movement to the DUW 4001, an in-house calibre designed and assembled in Glashütte that runs for up to 53 hours on a single wind and sits just 2.6mm tall. That thinness is part of what keeps the case to 8mm overall, which on a 36mm watch produces a genuinely flat profile that disappears under a shirt cuff without negotiation. The dial is the thing most people notice first: galvanised white with bold outlined Arabic numerals, black hands carrying red accents, and a snailed small-seconds sub-dial sunk into the six o'clock position. In good light the red stitching on the Shell Cordovan strap picks up the hand colour and the whole thing reads as considered rather than assembled. Shell Cordovan resists the creasing that kills ordinary leather straps, and it builds a patina that improves rather than deteriorates — an owner in year three has a better strap than an owner in week one.

Reference: CLUB
Brand: Nomos Glashütte
Collection: Club
Case size: 38.5mm
Case thickness: 8mm
Lug width: 18mm
Case material: Stainless steel
Case shape: Round
Dial: White
Crystal: Sapphire
Movement: Manual
Calibre: DUW 4001
Functions: Small seconds
Water resistance: 100m
Bracelet / strap: Leather strap
Strap colour: Brown
Clasp: Buckle
Lume: Super-LumiNova
Condition: Pre-owned
Retailer: Goldsmiths

Additional specifications

Lug-to-lug: 44.3mm
Power reserve: 53 hours

Learn more about Nomos Glashütte

Roland Schwertner, a photographer and computer technician from Düsseldorf with no watchmaking background, registered Nomos in Glashütte in January 1990 — two months after the Berlin Wall fell and before German reunification was complete. The town's watchmaking infrastructure had been state-owned for four decades and was suddenly available.

The design language was settled from the start and has barely moved: Bauhaus in the strict sense, drawing on the Dessau school's functionalism. Sans-serif numerals, no applied ornament, no unnecessary line, and dial layouts where every element earns its place. The Tangente, one of the first models, remains the flagship and looks the same today.

The technical ambition came later and was considerable for a company of its size. Nomos moved from modified Swiss ébauches to its own Alpha calibre, then to the DUW family, and in 2014 introduced the swing system — a proprietary escapement with an in-house hairspring, the component almost no independent manufacturer makes. Fewer than a dozen companies worldwide produce their own hairsprings.

The house is still independent, still based in a converted railway station in Glashütte, with design offices in Berlin. It occupies unusual territory: in-house movements and German finishing at prices closer to Swiss mid-range brands using bought-in calibres, which has made it the most common entry point into serious German watchmaking.

1990: Roland Schwertner founds Nomos in Glashütte.
1992: The Tangente launches and defines the house style.
2005: Production shifts to in-house movements.
2014: The swing system escapement with in-house hairspring is introduced.

Also in 6 collections

This watch appears in the Nomos Glashütte Club range (11), Back in Stock (4,868), Stainless Steel Watches (3,133), Leather Strap Watches (1,037), Dress Watches (557) and Pre-Owned, Ex-Display & Vintage Watches (369).