Comment by brightbeige
9 hours ago
For those who like long form journalism and want to know more about watch collecting and Glasshütte: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...
9 hours ago
For those who like long form journalism and want to know more about watch collecting and Glasshütte: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...
Nomos is far and away my favorite marque.
As an aside, there is a fascinating lineage betewen mining silver and the birth of the Dollar in this region[0], to the establishment of precision horology[1], and thus luxury timepieces.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_Mountains
[1]https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/watchmaking/watchmaking-trad...
It's also the region where the Russians mined the first Uranium for their a-bombs [0], and where curiously a small triangle of land was neither occupied by the Russians nor the Yanks after WW2 [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic_of_Schwarzenberg