Stories

The sandstone of Burgdorf, Armin Strom's home town in the canton of Bern, has long shaped the region's architecture, and now gives the Tribute 1 its colours.

Ukrainian engraver Maksym Shavlak spends more than 50 hours turning each stainless steel Noirmont case into eighteenth-century Baroque foliage, and no two are alike.

Armin Strom assembles each Mirrored Force Resonance twice, and the newest is the first with a case in 18-karat rose gold.

The Orbit shows its date only when asked: press the pusher at 10 o'clock, and a hand points to today's date on the ceramic bezel.

For the first time, the off-centre dial of Armin Strom's Mirrored Force Resonance carries a sunray guilloché, cut by hand on a rose engine lathe.

Konstantin Chaykin, the independent watchmaker who made Russia's first tourbillons, wanted more complexity for the Time Eater he shares with Louis Erard: specifically, a tourbillon.

Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the glacial blue guilloché main plate at the heart of Armin Strom's latest Gravity Equal Force.

German artist Daniel Engelberg's concentric circles now orbit each other on a titanium dial, animated for the first time by Ressence's orbiting display.

Armin Strom completes its Gravity Equal Force collection in 18K rose gold. Kari Voutilainen cuts the grain d’orge guilloché pattern on the mainplate by hand, beneath a sapphire dial that seems to float.

A cult 70s driver’s watch reengineered in sapphire. The AMIDA Digitrend Open Sapphire fuses jump-hour mechanics, Swiss precision, and radical transparency—limited to just 150 pieces.

Benoît Mintiens and Mohammed Abdulmagied Seddiqi went into the desert together to gather the sand that fills this dial, sourced from each of the seven Emirates.

Manuel Emch of Louis Erard recalls that Konstantin Chaykin called with a grin: making watches together was fun, but he wanted to sell a few himself.