Nomos Club arrived. My first highly expensive watch.

Background

Recently I have decided that I wanted to get a higher end watch than anything in my existing collection. 

I was originally looking at the Longines Conquest, which I sort of consider a grail watch, but the 34mm version is only quartz and seems to have the issue of the hands missing markers based on videos and other resources that I have seen on the watch. The 39mm one is too big. There is also an older version with an automatic movement at 34mm, but it lacks the crown guards, which just makes it lose its appeal to me.

As such, I looked for other options and the Oris Aquis stood out to me, but it felt sort of generic since I have a dive watch already. Upon my research on that, I came across this Nomos, which really spoke to me and I knew I wanted it.

As such, I set out to get one but thanks to the 10 month delivery time from Nomos and a lack of dealer stock, I was limited in my options. Ended up buying it from Jura Watches in the UK, which does mean import taxes, but the cost of the watch itself was relatively low, so the overall price wasn't too bad. I ended up paying 1200€ or so, which is definitely higher than what I could have bought it for from Chrono24 or something, but for that extra money, I got it from an AD with warranty, got an okay watch carrying case with it and got it to me 3 days after ordering instead of multiple weeks. 

The watch

The watch arrived today, so I finally have it. In person, it looks great. As is visible in the photo, the dial isn't plain white as many product images and such make it seem. It's more of a grey-ish white. 

The quality of everything is great. There are no issues that I can see, the alignment of everything is on point and the watch feels nice as a whole. 

The large lugs were a consideration, but it wears quite well. The curve on the lugs matches my arm pretty much perfectly and the small dial makes the profile small enough. 

I also like the simplicity as this watch is highly legible. One of the reasons why I chose this over the Club Campus models is the fact that there are no roman numerals and the clear separation of background from the indices. The white club campus lacks contrast for my liking. On this one, the close-to-red orange accents combined with the variety of textures works out great. 

As far as the movement goes, I would say currently I'm a bit disappointed. Despite the beat rate being fairly low on paper, the fact that the seconds are on a small subdial means that the sweep is very smooth. The winding action also feels pleasant and there is resistance once the power reserve gets close to full. I have never fully hand wound a movement, so I hope I didn't overwind it and cause damage, but since the watch still works, I doubt that I have.

The part that I feel disappointed about is the adjustment of time. I have seen this movement praised for that being great and the minute hand not bouncing around. Yet it was bouncing back quite a bit. Next time I'll try adjusting it before winding, so maybe that will help. Apparently the movement also looks good, but since I have the steel caseback version, that doesn't matter.

Another negative comes with the leather strap that came with the watch. It's of great quality and total length, but for some absurd reason Nomos has decided that their customers don't need many adjustment holes, so I had to add my own adjustment hole quite far into the strap where there were no holes by default. This seems to be a common issue with leather straps as it has been my experience with every leather strap I have ever received, but the adjustment has never been this bad on any other strap. 

After fixing the strap (making a hole with a screwdriver), it felt good, but felt too formal for me, so I put it on this green nato from my Timex Expedition North for now. I'll definitely get some other natos for it as this one is not of great quality and the hardware does not match the case at all. The green works surprisingly well with the dial, though. This has also confirmed that a nato works well with the watch on my wrist. 

Another consideration is that while the polished case is great, it will undoubtedly get scratched up in no time.

What do you think?