Nomos Glashütte - Mark Braun’s Metro Gets a Mechanical Update

NOMOS Metro Returns in Ice Blue

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NOMOS Glashütte’s ice-blue Metro editions return to a design by Berlin-based product designer Mark Braun, whose collaboration with the watchmaker began when a glass carafe he had made attracted the company’s attention. The Metro launched in 2014 with a power reserve indicator placed above and to the right of the hands, opposite a logo shifted towards the left. Braun had wanted to explore asymmetry further, although some of his proposals proved impossible within the movement’s constraints. The date and small seconds remain aligned beneath the hands, while the logo and power reserve indicator sit at unequal distances from the centre of the dial.

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On the Metro date power reserve ice blue, the metallic dial brings the surrounding blue markings closer in colour to the surface beneath them. Teal replaces the red in the power reserve display, reducing the contrast that made the original indicator so conspicuous. The automatic Metro neomatik 41 Update distributes its information differently, running the dates around the perimeter and framing the current day between two markers. Its regular arrangement is retained in the new colour. Both versions keep Braun’s domed sapphire crystal, a detail he discussed with Worn & Wound in an interview in March: “The crystal is the lens through which we view the dial.” The hand-wound version also introduces the DUW 4701, a new movement whose quick-set date matters most when the watch has been left unworn and stopped. The calendar can be corrected independently of the hands, sparing anyone who alternates between watches the repeated time adjustments needed to bring the date forward. NOMOS is fitting the movement to the existing white-dial version as well, allowing the original face with its red accents to remain an option alongside this new blue finish. The automatic retains its established movement; its update concerns the dial.

/ courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte

/ courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte

/ courtesy of NOMOS Glashütte

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Made in Glashütte, Germany, the 37 mm Metro date power reserve ice blue uses the hand-wound DUW 4701 caliber with a quick-set date and up to 52 hours of power reserve. The 40.5 mm Metro neomatik 41 Update ice blue features an automatic movement with a ring date and up to 48 hours of power reserve.

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Tiffany & Co. - Eternity by Tiffany Murano Glass Watch

Five dials cut from one piece of Venini glass distinguish a new edition of the Eternity by Tiffany watch, presented for Blue Book 2026

Tiffany & Co. Brings Venini’s Murano Glass to the Eternity Watch

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For its latest Eternity by Tiffany watch, Tiffany & Co. has worked with Venini to turn a single piece of Murano glass into five individual dials. Introduced for the autumn presentation of Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden in Venice, the limited series combines the glass with aquamarine hour markers and an 18k white-gold case and bracelet set with diamonds.

Venini, founded in Murano in 1921, brings its knowledge of colour and glassmaking to an unusually small surface. Each dial is cut from the same block of glass, measuring just 20 by 8 centimetres, and fitted into a 28mm cushion-shaped case. The blue and white patterns vary from one dial to the next, giving each watch its own arrangement of colour within the same design.

Eternity by Tiffany watch with a blue Venini Murano-glass dial, aquamarine hour markers and a diamond-set bracelet / courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

The aquamarines introduce another kind of variation. Twelve stones mark the hours, each in a different cut, from a heart and a pear to a marquise, an Asscher and Tiffany True. The idea comes from Tiffany advertisements of the 1960s, which inspired the Eternity collection. In those images, engagement rings form a heart, a question mark and an exclamation mark. On the dial, that variety of cuts gives each hour its own shape.

Much of the work on the bracelet concerns how it will move on the wrist. Every link is individually set and adjusted for flexibility, with the diamond-setting alone requiring 35 hours. Across the case, bracelet and crown, 500 diamonds weigh a total of 5.47 carats. A solitaire on the crown makes a further reference to the house’s engagement rings, held in the six-prong design of the Tiffany Setting.

/ courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

/ courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

/ courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

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Made in Switzerland and powered by a quartz movement, the watch displays hours and minutes. Production is limited to the five pieces, each retaining a different section of the original Venini glass.

— all images courtesy of Tiffany & Co.