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Armin Strom Watches: the Art of Resonance and Tourbillon

Any prospective purchaser of one of the unique watches from Armin Strom Watch AG will notice one thing as they jump around online from one verified dealer of Armin Strom watches to any other verified dealer of Armin Strom watches online. The same will be true when that same prospective purchaser comes to make a price request from a verified dealer of Armin Strom watches, whether that verified dealer of Armin Strom watches is based in Bern, Geneva or outside Switzerland. And of course, the same will also be true if that same prospective purchaser does not study the website of a verified dealer of Armin Strom watches and go on to make a price request form that same verified dealer of Armin Strom watches, but chooses instead to avoid a “it will cost the earth” verified dealer of Armin Strom watches and contact a private seller of an Armin Strom watch or watches instead.

The one thing that prospective purchaser will notice, verified dealer of Armin Strom watches or not, a private seller of Armin Strom watches or not, is that every Armin Strom watch is a unique piece. It is really of no consequence whether the watch being offered for sale by the verified dealer of Armin Strom watches has a steel case or non-steel case, features black or gold elements that add to the sophistication of the watch style or design, or a trademark Armin Strom Watch skeleton design complication to add to the price.

The truth is that every Armin Strom watch is both pure and unique and has a certain resonance with the universe, with time itself. Regardless of the Armin Strom watch collection from which it originates, Armin Strom watches are almost universally offered when a price request is made from a verified dealer of Armin Strom watches at a price that seems to defy gravity.

Every Armin Strom watch is indeed an Armin Strom masterpiece. Unlike watches and watch design types in a similar style from other acclaimed luxury watch or so-called ‘blue-chip’ makers such as Maurice Lacroix, Jaquet Droz, and Patek Philippe, only a very small number of Armin Strom manual watches are available by pure luck and by pure competition at any one time from any verified dealer of Armin Strom watches, and the rare private seller of an Armin Strom timepiece.

In recent years, Claude Greisler and Serge Michel, the innovative and passionate joint owners and successors to Armin Strom himself at the head of Armin Strom Watches of Burgdorf have released a steady but small stream of watches to add to the Armin Strom Watch collection. These are watches dedicated not merely to tell the time, but offering their owners and wearers the delights of unique, superlative style and design, many with not only a skeleton movement, but featuring anything from a steel case to a case in rose gold or black PVD, and with a very special resonance with the universe, time and gravity.

As a watch ‘manufacture’, a watchmaker where all the essential elements of an Armin Strom watch from its original style sketches to its design and production of case, movement and everything chosen to add to it before it is sold, Armin Strom AG can verify exactly what it produces, offer variations on the steel or rose gold case style, add black PVD or gold flourishes where required, and modify its collection of pure, unique luxury watches at almost any time of its choosing. Thus we have seen the Armin Strom skeleton style design ideas upon which Mr. Armin Strom originally built the brand extended, with Claude Greisler and Serge Michel happy to add a whole new level of luxury watch style and design excellence in the form of one collection after another where the price was never a primary motivation.

The Armin Strom AG Watches “Mirrored Force Resonance”, offered the widespread introduction of the ‘time resonance’ concept to Strom watches through the perfection and pure chemistry of the Strom Resonance Clutch Spring, a spring design linking the Mirrored Force Resonance’s calibre (caliber to some) ARF15’s two oscillators and enabling their synchronization of both and hence a verified increase inaccuracy. Variations on the basic design style have taken the design into different directions, notably with the Armin Strom skeleton movement “Pure Resonance” and Armin Strom AG Watches Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force. Detail changes that add more than mere style changes to the case or a lesson in how to add black or gold to a luxury watch design have developed from collaboration with watchmaker Kari Voutilainen.

Voutilainen was tasked with the job of how to add guilloche dials, in a range of colors including blue, black, anthracite and red, in a variety of design style forms, from the Guilloche palette of sunray, concentric waves and barleycorn patterns, to the pre-existing watch Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance Water, a model using a stainless steel case, white dial and blue accents. The guilloche equipped design Mirrored Force Resonance model from the wider watch Armin Strom collection, complete with its use of the time resonance concept is unique in all senses, but these subtle changes in the design have allowed Armin Strom Watch AG to gradually increase the range of the Armin Strom watch collection, with a long list of models including beauties such as the “Armin Strom Arabisch One Week Fire”, the “Armin Strom Skeleton Pure” and “Skeleton Pure Earth”, and Armin Strom “Manual Earth” in black PVD completely shunning the use of bright stainless steel case design or indeed gold or rose gold.

Pure and simple: any of the watch Armin Strom timepieces, and in particular the Gravity Equal Force and the Armin Strom Mirrored Force, especially those models with Kari Voutilainen Guilloche dials, are unique pieces, even before the benefits of dual time oscillators or the power reserve are considered. Many will click “add” to their wish list while perusing what is on offer from the verified Armin Strom dealer network or indeed, the occasional private seller of Armin Strom watches online, including NI Armin Strom and GB Armin Strom as well as Paris and Geneva of course. Who can resist the temptation not to click “add to wish list” to savor in, by pure love, the delights of an Armin Strom Masterpiece?

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