NOMOS GLASHÜTTE AUTOBAHN

This sporty new automatic watch draws heavy inspiration from a car’s speedometer, so its name was only natural, really. The piece uses Nomos’s new neomatik date calibre (DUW 6101), and looks distinctive at 41mm in diameter. Its design makes reference to the mechanism beneath, with the date ring running along the outer edge under the face, shown off with an elongated date window way down at six o’clock. “I love speed,” says the designer, Werner Aisslinger, whose work can be found in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Nomos has also released ‘Tetra Petit Four’, four square watches in spring colours that have a certain ’60s speedometer charm of their own, alongside their striking hues. $6,100, nomos-glashuette.com