Introducing: The Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance Fire, A Wristwatch With A Unique Resonance Coupling System

Resonance watches are an extremely small sub-set of horology, and with good reason: they are notoriously difficult to manufacture and, just as importantly, to regulate. The idea was perhaps most famously experimented with by the French watch and clockmaker Antide Janvier (1751-1835) and by Breguet, whose resonance watches provided the impetus for those made in the modern era by F. P. Journe. The basic idea is to take advantage of the fact that two oscillators (such as two balance wheels or two pendulums) which have the same natural frequency, and which are somehow mechanically coupled, will start to beat in time with one another. The two oscillators will be more resistant to disruption of their rate together, than apart, and with better rate stability there should be better accuracy.

9 years ago

Introducing the Revolutionary Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance – and why it is a such Breakthrough in Watchmaking (VIDEO)

A breakthrough in Watchmaking: introducing the Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance. Until now, Armin Strom was known for its superb skeletonized watches, mixing haute horlogerie features and sporty design. Today, Armin Strom propels a century old concept, Resonance, well and truly into the 21st century. In an exclusive first look, Monochrome unveils this revolutionary development (yes, simply that…) with technical insights, video and pictures.

9 years ago

Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance Watch

Swiss watchmaker Armin Strom really ups their game today with the debut of a new timepiece that is not only the most complicated watch produced by the boutique watchmaker, but also enters it among a small pantheon of great modern watches that are designed with dual resonating balance wheels as part of the mechanism.

9 years ago

Introducing the One-Handed Speake-Marin Veshelda Chinese

First introduced in 2014, the Veshelda is inspired by one of Peter Speake-Marin‘s earliest watches, the Shimoda. Both are characterised by a single, elongated hour hand tells the time to the nearest five minutes. The Veshelda Chinese is the latest in a series of one-handed limited editions, including one containing a drop of the most expensive […]

9 years ago

Eve’s Watch Awards: The Evening’s Winners And How The Night Played Out

It is more than time for women to be heard as consumers. It remains a mystery to me as to why the majority of watches aimed at women today are still designed by men!
The inaugural Eve’s Watch Awards has done a great job bringing the spotlight to the female wrist. Please read on to find out who were the big winners at the 2016 edition held at The Shard in London.

9 years ago

Preview of Geneva November 2016 Auctions: PHILLIPS in association with BACS & RUSSO

Sacha Davidoff Reports On The November 2016 Watch Auctions Back for their fourth Geneva watch auction, Aurel Bacs & Livia Russo in association with Phillips auction house continue to set the bar high. Whenever their watch auctions take place, the entire watch community is buzzing and especially paying very close attention to results. Their Geneva […]

9 years ago

Polar M200 Smartwatch

Polar has a 35-year-long history in fitness tracking and creating products for very active runners, cyclists, and more. The Polar M200 smartwatch is the latest in their efforts to provide reliable training metrics and real-time personalized training guidance.

9 years ago

GONE IN 60 SECONDS: See the world in colour with Montblanc’s 4810 Orbis Terrarum

montblanc-4810-orbis-terrarum-1When I was in high school we had to buy an atlas/geography textbook from a publisher called Heinemann. Don’t ask me why I remember this – it’s just one of the scores of useless trivia facts that are stuck in my head, while much more important information (such as reference numbers and calibre names) seem to constantly elude me. One of the things I liked most about this atlas were the different types of map on offer: Political, altitude, rainfall, temperature – Heinemann had them all. And this is what the new, brightly coloured dial of the 4810 Orbis Terrarum instantly reminded me of. Turns out I wasn’t too far off. Aside from adding a dash of colour to the Orbis Terrarum, the multi-coloured world disc represents warmer and cooler parts of the globe. But the map isn’t the only thing that’s different about this Orbis Terrarum, it’s now part of the 4810 family, meaning it has a bigger, curvier case than the original. When it comes to looks it’s a hard call as to whether this version or the blue-on-blue Heritage Spirit model is more attractive, and will depend largely on personal preference. For me though, the 4810 Orbis Terrarum is…

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9 years ago

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox Boutique Edition

60th Anniversary 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox. Reason to celebrate with the Master Memovox Boutique Edition, limited to 500 pieces only. These 500 pieces have a blue ‘rich’ dial with beautiful thick applied hour markers, inspired by their 1970s Memovox watches. Jeager-LeCoultre Caliber 815 In 1956, JLC used the […]

9 years ago

Hands-On: The Parmigiani Fleurier Pantographe, A Unique Oval Wristwatch With Telescoping Mechanical Hands

Most crafts have a basic technical vocabulary, with much of the existing variety coming from variation and permutation. For example, in classic French cooking you have the so-called “mother” sauces (béchamel, velouté, espagnole, tomate, and hollandaise) on which the formal vocabulary of haute cuisine is built. In watchmaking, you have the time-only watch, the chronograph, the calendar (normal, annual, perpetual), the repeater, and so on. There is a lot of real interest to be found in coming up with an infinite number of variations on a theme, and you could eat just French cuisine for the rest of your life with no pain, but if that was all you ever had, and suddenly someone offered you a shot at, say, sushi at Jiro’s, you’d probably leap at the chance like you’d never leapt before. Likewise, in watchmaking there is a standard repertoire of variations on the basics, from which many lifetimes of satisfaction can be had – but there are also, occasionally, watches different enough to be a real breath of fresh air.

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