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Nomos's Tangente neomatik 38 Update fits the ring date into a 7.4mm case, from A$7,110

The Tangente neomatik 38 Update prints all thirty-one dates around the dial rim and still keeps the case to 7.4mm, from A$7,110 on Nomos's Australian store.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 11 August 2026

Nomos Tangente neomatik 38 Update reference 147, white silver-plated dial with the ring date printed around the rim and two red markers — Nomos Glashütte

Thirty-one dates printed around the outer edge of the dial, and two small red markers that travel around to bracket whichever one is today. Nomos calls it the ring date. You read the date off whatever sits between the markers, and the rest of the month stays laid out in front of you. No window, no hole cut in the dial, and the Tangente neomatik 38 Update is built around the whole idea.

Four references are up on Nomos's own store: the 147 with a white silver-plated dial, the 148 in forest green, and two in gold.

Close-up of the Tangente neomatik 38 Update dial showing the date numerals around the outer edge and a red marker — Nomos Glashütte

Fitting an automatic into 7.4mm

The case runs 38.5mm across, 47.3mm lug to lug and 7.4mm tall. Getting an automatic and a date complication under that number is real work, and plenty of brands would have quietly added a millimetre and trusted nobody to check. The profile shots show what it buys. Shallow sides, and a watch that sits on the wrist like a flat disc.

Flat is the entire point of a Tangente, and it is where most of the Bauhaus-ish field falls over by turning up 11mm thick.

Sapphire crystal caseback of the Tangente neomatik 38 Update showing the DUW 6101 calibre — Nomos Glashütte

The DUW 6101 runs its date ring outside the train

The reason the numerals get to live at the very edge is in the layout of the calibre. Nomos runs the date ring around the outside of the gear train instead of stacking it on top, which is the patented part, and it is why the dial needs no window. The movement is the DUW 6101, made by Nomos in Glashütte, with a 50-hour power reserve.

Nomos says the date sets quickly and reliably in both directions with a very short locking time. That counts for more here than it does on a window watch, because there is no cheating a ring date by winding the hands through midnight thirty times and looking the other way.

Nomos Tangente neomatik 38 Update reference 148 with a forest green dial and rhodium-plated hands — Nomos Glashütte

Five atm, which Nomos writes as splash-proof

Water resistance is 5 atm, and the brand's own spec sheet puts it as "splash-proof". Take that at face value. This is a dress watch on a 19mm Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan strap and it has no business in a pool.

Backs come sapphire or solid steel, and it can be had on the leather or on a bracelet, with a winged clasp as standard.

A$7,110, import duties already in it

Nomos runs an Australian store, and it lists the 147 at A$7,110 and the forest green 148 at A$7,260, with the deployant clasp another A$120. The gold Tangente gold neomatik 38 Update doré, reference 196, is A$24,600.

The good part is in the small print. Nomos states that all prices include applicable import taxes and duties, so those are landed figures rather than European numbers that catch you out at the door. More brands selling into Australia could stand to say it that plainly.

None of which makes A$7,110 loose change for a 38.5mm watch on leather with 5 atm of water resistance. What it pays for is an in-house automatic, a date complication nobody else does quite this way, and a case profile most of the industry cannot match. Of the four, the green 148 is the pick.