NOMOS Glashütte Autobahn watches

The Nomos Glashütte Autobahn is the brand's car-themed sports watch, designed with the German designers Werner Aisslinger and Tina Bunyaprasit and shown at Baselworld in 2018. It takes its name from Kraftwerk's 1974 song, and its dial takes its cue from the lit gauges of a car's instrument panel.

The Autobahn is a 41 mm steel watch, 10.5 mm thick, under sapphire and water resistant to 100 m. A raised arc of luminous markers curves around the centre of the dial, the small seconds sit in a recessed subdial, and a large three-lane date window shows yesterday, today and tomorrow at once. Inside is the in-house DUW 6101, an automatic calibre only 3.6 mm thick and the first of the neomatik family to carry a date. It runs for about 42 hours.

The standard Autobahn neomatik 41 date came in three dial colours: the 1301 has a silver dial with a grey luminous ring, the 1302 is midnight blue with a white ring, and the 1303, the Sports Gray, pairs the galvanized dial of the 1301 with a blue ring.

In 2021 the designers chose new colours for the Director's Cut, three editions of 175 pieces each named after German motorways: the A3 (1301.S1), the blue-and-yellow A7 (1301.S2) and the black-and-grey A9 (1301.S3). They keep the 41 mm case and the DUW 6101 of the standard watch but come on a racing-style bracelet that Nomos made only for these editions, where the regular models wear a fabric strap.