![]() In the not too distant future, NODUS will offer a stainless steel bracelet for this watch, which will really make this watch suitable for diving and other water related activities. The watch also comes with a NATO strap, watch roll, microfibre cleaning cloth and it has a 24 month warranty. This strap has one fixed and one loose loop. The fully white stitched, quick release, full grain black leather strap tapers from 22 mm to 20 mm and has a perfectly sized, polished and finished 316L buckle with the NODUS name engraved across the buckle. ![]() The Industrial Brown finish on the face and bezel of this model Retrospect gives the watch a far more interesting look, in my opinion. I do not know if this a retro touch, but I really like it combined with the longer than average hour and minute hands. This is the first watch in my experience to have the second hand actually extending out to the outer edge of the second markers. The ⅕ of a second markers have 5 second numerals on the outer edge of the dial, behind each lumed index, which looks great to me. Only the brand logo and name are printed on the upper half of the dial and the model name, “Retrospect”, is on the lower half, all in the right size and fonts for this watch. In addition, the white on brown 6 o’clock date window gives the face perfect symmetry. The polished and filled hour, minute blade hands and the arrow head and fan tailed second hand and the indices use superluminova C3 green for excellent night time visibility. The sandwich dial face uses 11 arrow shaped indices and one four sided index at 6 o’clock. There is no detail on this watch that has been overlooked, in my opinion. The screw down case back is brushed with etched watch information encircling it’s outer edge. The brushed, inward sloping, stainless steel bezel insert is PVD engraved to be very durable and attractive at the same time. The polished, stainless coarse coin edged, 120 click, unidirectional bezel is extremely solid with no black play at all, something I rarely find. The 200 meter/660 ft W/R rated watch is made of 316L steel and the case is completely polished except for the brushed finish on the top of the lugs. ![]() The watch itself is an extremely wearable size of 40.5 mm in diameter, 12.5 mm thick (15 mm with the double domed sapphire crystal), 49 mm lug to lug width (with drilled lugs), 22 mm lug width and has a 7 mm coarse, gear edged polished and signed crown at 3 o’clock. My example does not vary by more than a second a day, and if it is worn daily it is the most accurate automatic movement I have seen to date. The movements are calibrated and stress tested in 4 positions by Nodus in Los Angeles, giving the watch superb accuracy. The only pre-assembled part of the watch they receive is the movement, which in this watch is the extremely popular Time Module NH35a from Seiko. In addition, all NODUS watches are designed, assembled, inspected and tested in Los Angeles. The Retrospect is based on 1960’s watches from Breitling, Rado and Gruen but with performance, quality and value not available until now. The watch is also available in Slate Gray and Frost White. For this review I have a Retrospect in Industrial Brown. The company has developed two exquisite lines of watches at this time, the Contrail and the Retrospect. NODUS Watches is a new Los Angeles based microbrand that should really be noticed.
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