Ace Jewelers and Nomos be part of forces once more to create two particular Dutch-themed items to have fun the Amsterdam jeweller’s fiftieth anniversary, following the unique Orion De Stijl Restricted Version, the Membership Campus Amsterdam, the Zürich Weltzeit Amsterdam and the Tangente 38 Amsterdam. The mannequin chosen for this new sequence is the Metro, a household not often singled out for restricted editions that required the approval of its designer, Mark Braun. The 2 50-piece restricted editions – Metro Neomatik and Metro Neomatik 39 – fly the Netherlands’ proud orange colors with their vibrant two-tone orange dials.
Ace Jewelers of Amsterdam has cast an in depth friendship with Nomos, teaming up over time with the Glashütte model to supply editions that resonate with its clients. Marking the eighth and ninth collaboration, the 2 fiftieth anniversary fashions hail from the Metro household, designed by Mark Braun in 2014. With a level in industrial design, Braun’s modern, city design for the Metro is characterised by its elegant minimalism and design options just like the wire lugs (a nod to early trench wristwatches) and the skinny, tapering fingers that seize the look of precision measuring instruments.
Described as essentially the most daring color ever featured on the Metro, the 2 editions flaunt daring two-tone orange dials. Though the Netherlands’ flag is pink, white and blue, the nation is proudly related to the color orange, due to the Home of Orange-Nassau, the Dutch royal household.
Obtainable in two case sizes – 35mm x 8.1mm and 38.5mm x 8.4mm – the slim stainless-steel circumstances are polished and have the signature wire lugs and crown with its effective diamond knurling. Each fashions are fitted with see-through casebacks to view the ultra-slim in-house computerized motion, and their dials are protected by the gathering’s attribute domed sapphire crystal.
Naturally, the spotlight of those anniversary items is the daring two-tone orange dial. Due to the skinny bezel, the dial has loads of respiration room to disclose its cool designer touches. The bigger mannequin encompasses a lighter orange dial with a darker, burnt orange and snailed small seconds counter, whereas the smaller 35mm mannequin inverts the formulation. The distinctive hour and minutes fingers, formed just like the profile of the Empire State Constructing, have needle-thin ideas that underscore their precision instrument character. Utilizing bigger dots to mark the hours and a clearly printed minutes monitor with a mixture of Arabic numerals at 5-minute intervals and dots, the longer minutes hand alights completely on the monitor.
Each watches are powered by the ultra-thin Nomos DUW 3001 computerized calibre with a thickness of simply 3.2mm. Fitted with the model’s proprietary swing system (stability spring, escape wheel and pallet), the motion has a frequency of 21,600vph, delivers an influence reserve of 43 hours and shows engaging finishings like Glashütte ribbing on the three-quarter plate, tempered blued screws and perlage.
The anniversary Metro fashions are restricted editions of fifty individually numbered items and can be found now at Ace Jewelers’ Amsterdam boutique. The smaller mannequin retails for EUR 3,400 (incl. VAT) and the bigger for EUR 3,540 (incl. VAT). Gung-ho followers of the Metro anniversary fashions ought to know that 10 units of matching-numbered pairs, containing each watches, can even be out there – extra data at acejewelers.com.
