Modern and retro, are you talking about this replica watch?

Posted by lifata on November 30th, 2022

In recent years, the topic of retro-style sports watches has remained high. This kind of watch dominated by modern design and added with retro elements is very attractive to the market.

Modern retro style, these words sound familiar, but when you think about it, it is not easy to put the two opposing styles together well. So how to play retro in the context of modern style?

For this, the Union Glashütte Noramins series has a bit of its own approach.

Let's take a look at the Noramins series first. In all Union replica watch series, Noramins draws inspiration from the style of the 1950s and 1960s. From calendar watches, to diving watches, and then to chronographs, Noramins is keen on retro style, but not limited to one style.

Dynamic, dynamic, simple, elegant...the style is changeable, the retro is diverse, this is the Noramins series.

This kind of freedom can be seen in the cooperative perfect replica watches of Union Watch and many German antique car races. Not long ago, the brand once again launched a limited edition Noramins chronograph specifically for the 2022 German Saxony Antique Car Rally Competition.

The new watch is inspired by antique cars and still continues the retro style. So, we go back to the question at the beginning: how to make a watch meet modern needs and have a retro style at the same time? Let's take a look at the expression of this watch.

The new Noramins chronograph is made of fine steel, with a diameter of 42 mm and a thickness of 14.45 mm, and has a water resistance of 100 meters.

The mirror adopts a box structure. Viewed from the side, the mirror surface is slightly higher than the case. If you look at the retro-style fake watches cheap on the market, you will find that the box mirror design is very common. The material of the watch mirror is modern sapphire crystal, which has high hardness, wear resistance and scratch resistance, and has a more ideal protection effect.

The design of the dial is a highlight. I wonder if you noticed the design of the digital time scale? The dial is inspired by the retro speedometer of an antique car, and the conventional hour markers are changed into minute markers, which gives people a sense of freshness, but it does not affect our reading habits, and the time can still be read quickly and accurately .

The layout of the “panda plate” is standard for modern chronographs. The two sub-dials are decorated with vinyl record patterns and matched with the gray-brown dial. The color highlights the retro charm and the design adds a sense of hierarchy.

The watch has a minute chronograph dial at 15 minutes (3 o'clock), a small seconds dial at 45 minutes (9 o'clock), and a calendar window at the same position. Reading time, timing, and date display functions are all available to meet modern needs. In addition, the hour markers, hour and minute hands are all made of Super-LumiNova® luminous coating, which is convenient for people to clearly distinguish the time in a dark environment.

Retro decoration, design and modern materials and functions together create a new Noramins chronograph, but what really makes the watch rotate freely is the latest UNG-27.S2 self-winding machine equipped inside core. This movement has undergone manual assembly, calibration, quality control, and strict control of "one watch, one quality inspection" by watchmakers in the small town of Glashütte, and has a 60-hour power reserve.

The movement adopts a silicon balance spring and a stop-second device to protect the movement from magnetic field interference and ensure the accuracy of time adjustment respectively.

The polishing of the movement still maintains the standard. The oscillating weight decorated with the hollow brand logo has the classic Glashütte columnar pattern, the fish scale pattern on the plywood and the blue steel screws, which are the characteristics of Glashütte’s traditional watchmaking. After all, Union Watch was born in the town of Glashütte, the birthplace of German watchmaking.

The embossed letters on the outermost circle of the movement indicate the year and place of the brand's birth: 1893, built in a German watch factory in the town of Glashütte, Saxony.

Finally, let's take a look at the design of the strap. If there was only one design that stood out to me about the new Noramins chronograph, it would be the holes in the strap. The inspiration for this creation comes from the hole on the steering wheel of a racing car. It was originally intended to reduce weight. Union used this element on the strap to make the "antique car" style of the watch more complete.