Nomos Watch Study
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Nomos Watch Study.
These two Nomos pieces stayed with me after my Schön! watch story wrapped, and I kept the probe lens on them for a personal study in probe lens watch photography, working right across the case metals and every facet. At this range the watch stops reading as something small. The probe lens turns the crown, the dial and the caseback into something closer to landscape than product, an immersive scale I don't get any other way. The difficulty is holding enough of that landscape in focus to still read as a watch. A probe lens this close has almost no depth of field, so a single facet can tip from recognisable detail into pure abstract texture within a fraction of a millimetre. I worked the metals and facets systematically first, locking the crown knurling, the dial finish and the caseback movement sharp on each watch before I let anything move. Only once I had that full reference across both pieces did I bring motion into it.
The blur is built in camera, not added after. I drag the watch through frame on a slow shutter to pull leading lines out of the case edges and the printed world-city ring, using the motion to suggest time passing rather than movement for its own sake. This grew out of my Schön! watch story and continues the in-camera approach behind my Curiosity Studies work. Self-shot, styled and directed by me.
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