Category: Armin Strom

What’s all the fuss about watches with a longer power reserve?

When I first got into watches, the concept of power reserve was foreign to me. When it came to the mechanics of a watch, all I knew was that if left on my wrist, I didn’t have to worry about it stopping. Yet as time progressed and the world of watches consumed me, the amount … Continued

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3 years ago

Women’s Watch Wednesday – Introducing the Armin Strom Lady Beat

Today we bring glad tidings to women who appreciate mechanical watches with a certain dose of complexity. Armin Strom, the independent Swiss brand renowned for its revolutionary use of resonance, is releasing Lady Beat, a watch designed by women for women. Unlike many men’s watches that stray into female territory with smaller case sizes and […]

5 years ago

The Collector’s Series – @winewhiskywatches and his Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance with Kari Voutilainen Guilloché Dial

After we relaunched The Collector’s Series last week, with Brice interviewing myself about my lovely old Daniel Roth Small Seconds with salmon-colour dial, we reached out to a few collectors. What I have always liked so much about this series is to find out more about the motivation of why people buy a particular watch. We spend a (more often than not) serious budget on something that tells time, but more importantly, gives pleasure. And I love to tap into that and find out what drives a collector to make his/her choice; what’s the ‘rationale’ behind a choice. Today we’re proud to feature someone with a remarkably good Instagram name, namely @WineWhiskyWatches, and we’re talking about his Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance with a beautiful guilloche dial by Kari Voutilainen.

6 years ago

Video – Understanding the Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force and its Technical Innovations

Armin Strom is among these independent watchmakers that not all watch lovers know… But clearly, they should, because Armin Strom is doing great things! In 2016, it reinvented the resonance concept with its own and impressive take on the phenomenon with the Mirror Resonance watch and its two balances connected by a spring to accentuate […]

6 years ago

Recap – 2019 Behind the Lens – Our Best Videos of the Year

Our videos, which we’d prefer to call “in-depth movies”, are something we’re very proud of, here at MONOCHROME. We take a lot of time and energy to produce them since we believe that seeing a watch or a concept in video and not in photo dramatically helps to understand the beauty that is hidden in […]

6 years ago

Best of 2019 – Our Top 5 Exceptional Watches

As 2019 is coming to an end, we’ve gathered the MONOCHROME redaction team and started to think about the watches that most impressed us this year. After a look at the best chronographs, the best dive watches, the best traveller’s watches and our favourite accessible watches, it is time to look at the stuff dreams are made […]

6 years ago

Introducing – Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force System 78 (Hands-On)

Armin Strom is a brand apart. Over the past few years, Serge Michel and Claude Greisler have set the foundations of this fully integrated manufacture. The young independent watchmaker has demonstrated its capacity to innovate, in particular with its Mirrored Force Resonance concept. Marking the launch of its new System 78 collection, the Armin Strom […]

6 years ago