Watches to help in heatwaves, drought, and floods
August 19 is World Humanitarian Day, a field which is also increasingly challenged by extreme weather events. The watch manufacturer NOMOS Glashütte is helping—with more than 11,000 watches to date in support of Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
GLASHÜTTE, AUGUST 2023. July 2023 was the hottest July to date, worldwide. This has consequences for the emergency aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with which the watch manufacturer NOMOS Glashütte has been cooperating for more than ten years. This is because extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and hurricanes have an impact on health—and medical and humanitarian needs continue to increase as the climate crisis progresses. "We have to care for more and more malnourished children, and floods increase the risk of malaria and cholera outbreaks, for example," says Christian Katzer, executive director of Doctors Without Borders Germany. "In order for us to respond to this, we need committed partners like NOMOS Glashütte to support us in this task."
The watch manufacturer NOMOS Glashütte has been producing mechanical watches in support of Doctors Without Borders since 2012. To date, this has raised more than 1,300,000 euros for people in need. Judith Borowski, Managing Director of NOMOS Glashütte: "Valuable watches and great need seem mismatched only at first glance. Because we can best help with what we can do—and as watchmakers in Glashütte, that is make the best watches."
World Humanitarian Day is an international day of action that commemorates aid workers who have lost their lives in the service of others. It celebrated every year on August 19. This is the day when a bomb attack in Baghdad killed 22 people, including the then Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and several of his staff.
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About NOMOS Glashütte:
NOMOS Glashütte is one of the few owner-operated watch manufactories in the world, and creates its mechanical timepieces in Glashütte, Germany. Watch models such as the Tangente, Ludwig, Orion, Club or Metro are world-famous—just like the place where they are made. Glashütte is a legally protected designation of origin. Only manufacturers who work according to strict rules in the 175-year-old tradition of the watchmaking town are permitted to use this denomination for their wristwatches. NOMOS Glashütte is the manufacturer that produces the most mechanical watches in Glashütte.
