Back over the summer, we told you about a new addition to the Nomadic lineup, the Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall (you can see that here). Since then, we were able to spend some time with a loaner, and now we can give you our take on this compact watch.
Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall: what it is
The Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall is what you get when Nomadic turns their design aesthetic to the classic field, or explorer, watch. At the core, it’s a compact (39mm by 11mm thick) stainless steel sports watch in a three-handed (no date) presentation. Of course, Nomadic isn’t going to leave things there.
A typical, classic explorer design usually does things up in a brushed or blasted finish, which is done to keep the inadvertent flashes of light from happening. Here, the watch is full of polish, including the fixed stainless steel bezel. So, you’re taking things in a dressier direction, particularly with a bracelet that tapers from 20mm to 16mm.
There there’s that dial
One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about checking out the designs from Nomadic is how they’ve embraced their own digital-inspired font on their dials, particular with the numerals. Here, they’ve even gone so far as to have those rendered in 3D so they could have appliced indices for the numerals as well as the bars. These are all fillled with BGW9 blue SuperLuminova, which means things are quite legible, day or night. Our loaner was done up in a lovely emerald green (prior versions have seen a white or a black dial).
Wearing the watch
Good looks are one thing, but if a watch isn’t comfortable to wear, or easy to actually use as, you know, a watch, that’s going to break the deal. Fortunately, the Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall scores high marks here as well.
The 39mm case is quite comfortable, particularly once you have the three-link bracelet sized appropriately. And, should you be between sizing with the links, or just need a little room during the day? You’ve got the microglide adjustment in the clasp that can easily give you a little extra space when you need it.
Also, don’t underestimate the taper on the bracelet. This shaves a few grams off of the overall weight, and of course reduces bulk under your wrist. It all adds up to make for a watch that is no problem to wear. And once it’s on, the white handset and indices stand out quite sharply against the green dial. The anti-reflective coating on the flat crystal is pretty good, meaning it was never an issue to read the time.
Wrapping things up
Just as with the other Nomadic watches we’ve been fortunate to get loaners in on, I came away suitably impressed with the Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall. To be sure, over the long run, I think I’d cool on the Flieger-style hands, but otherwise, they’ve got a lot to offer.
And either way, the Nomadic Turas 914 Landfall ($1,265) is completely sold out, as are the prior versions (you can sign up on the product page to be notified when they come back in stock). So, that means you’ll want to check out some of their other models. For all the details on the Turas, though, you’ll want to head right over to nomadicwatches.com
Nomadic Turas 914 Tech Specs
- Case:
- 316L stainless steel
- Diameter: 39mm
- Thickness: 11mm
- Lug-to-lug: 47.5mm
- Lug width: 20mm
- Crystal: flat sapphire, AR coating
- Bezel: Polished 316L stainless steel
- Luminescence: Blue SuperLumiNova, BGW9
- WR: 100m
- Movement: Sellita SW200-1
- Bracelet
- Screw-in links
- Quickset spring bars
- Tapered 20mm – 16mm
- Microglide adjustment clasp
