Nomos Glashütte making a watch with Handelsblatt shouldn’t be a surprise. When the German business newspaper published its first issue in 1946, one of its headings read Fortschritte der Technik, or “Advances in technology”. Eighty years later, that phrase could sit rather neatly beside Nomos’s Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer, a watch whose cleverness lies in making a complicated piece of engineering look remarkably straightforward.
Created for Handelsblatt’s 80th anniversary, this new edition takes the Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer introduced in 2025 and gives it a stock-market twist. Five of the usual city codes have been replaced by NYSE, LSE, FWB, HKEX and TSE, representing the exchanges of New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. It is a witty adjustment, particularly given that Handelsblatt has reported on the markets every trading day since 1959 and remains an official publication for exchange-regulated announcements in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.
The newspaper’s warm orange appears across those exchange codes, around the dial and on the day/night indication at three o’clock. Even the thin dividing line on that subdial echoes Handelsblatt’s graphic layout. The danger with branded editions is that corporate colours start doing too much of the talking. Here, they largely work. Against the silver dial and steel bracelet, the orange adds energy and gives the dial greater clarity.
Details of the Nomos Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer – Edition Handelsblatt, from the red crown warning ring and sapphire caseback revealing the DUW 3202 automatic calibre, to its remarkably slim 9.9mm profile.
Underneath is the same DUW 3202 automatic calibre that made the original Worldtimer such an impressive debut. Nomos integrates the world-time mechanism into a movement only 4.8mm thick, allowing the 40mm steel case to remain just 9.9mm high. A pusher at two o’clock advances the hour hand and city ring together, while the 24-hour subdial keeps track of home time. There is also 100 metres of water resistance and a red warning ring on the screw-down crown to tell you when it has not been properly secured.
At £4,260, it costs £300 more than the standard white-dial version. It is probably too niche for anyone who has never worried about whether London is opening while Hong Kong is closing. For those who do, Nomos has effectively turned the worldtimer into a miniature trading desk, and made it rather handsome in the process.
Author: Lina Ress
Other watches recently reviewed by I-M Inquisitive Minds include the Tag Heuer Formula 1 Solargraph, the latest Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez Vous models, and the Ulysse Nardin Blast Moonstruck.
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