Nomos movements

Nomos has always been a brand that has attracted my interest. Mainly because of their relatively affordable in-house movements that are also very well decorated. Very rarely can you find in-house movements that are also decorated at those prices points.

I see that they value their automatics more than their manual wind watches. Their automatics are usually around £2.5-3k range, whereas their manual winds are around £1.5-2k.

At those price points, they are competing a lot with Seiko, albeit different markets as they don’t offer dive watches.

Regardless, does anyone know, generally, how do their movements compare against Seiko? At their prices, the automatics, quality-wise, should be comparable to the 8L35 and the manual winds should be similar to the 6R movements. However, seeing as Seiko gets a lot of criticism for using 6R movements in their £1k+ watches, then it would be reasonable to assume that Nomos’ manual winds are better quality than the 6R movements?

Even though they both compete in the same price segment, Nomos’ movements usually have Seiko beat on decoration.