How Armin Strom creates some of the only resonance watches in the world today
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Earlier this year, Sincere Fine Watches relaunched its Sincere Watch Academy series, which prompts fans of horology to examine their passion from a platform of education and knowledge. At an intimate dinner at The Library, at The Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Claude Greisler, CEO of Armin Strom, guided guests through the details behind the watchmaker’s line of resonance watches.
The resonance watch seeks to overcome the innate inaccuracies of the mechanical timepiece. In that sense, it is a bit like the more well-known tourbillon. The principle behind the resonance watch is to combine two escapements together in a way which enables them to influence each other. This results in greater precision and stability due to the two systems being able to share information.
It is not a trivial problem to solve, and yet this small independent maison was able to do so. It took years of development and a collaborative research effort with CSEM, the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology, to develop the all-important connecting clutch spring.
The result is found in some of the only regular offering of resonance watches available today. The Mirrored Force Resonance collection, available in options of Water (steel case, RM230,330) and Fire (18k rose gold case, RM311,550) houses the manually-wound ARF15 movement, with the twin escapements visible in Armin Strom’s typical skeleton fashion. The clutch spring is also conspicuous as the strip of metal that snakes between them; it ripples hypnotically while the watch is in action. Combined with the offset dials and two seconds subdials, this is one of the most visually and mechanically distinct wristwatches available today.
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