Monday, March 19, 2012

RSW - La Neuveville and High King


RSW - La Neuveville and High King NEW Baselworld 2012.

 RSW, a brand known for atypical, futuristic and conceptual watches pays homage to its hometown of La Neuveville with one of three new watch collections at Baselworld 2012.

RSW WatchesLa Neuveville, the medieval city located on the shore of Lake Biel, is the home of RSW. To celebrate the city’s 700th anniversary in 2012, RSW introduces the city’s watch namesake, La Neuveville, a vintage-style dress watch featuring the RSW patented fold-out crank crown on the automatic model with an ETA 2824-2 movement and a traditional crown on the quartz-powered model with an ETA 955.112 movement. The case is available in steel or steel coated with yellow PVD. There are three dial variations: white, black and an exceptionally elegant sunray pattern in gray.

























MovementQuartz ETA 955.112 / ETA 2824-2 movement
FunctionsHours, minutes, seconds and date
CaseStainless steel or PVD yellow gold-plated steel
Bezel set with 12 (0.11 ct) or 84 (0.76 ct) diamonds
Fold-out crown with crank mechanism between 3 and 4 o'clock
Sapphire crystal and screw-down back
Water-resistant to 30 m / 3 ATM
DialSunburst grey, black or white
Applied silver-toned or gold-toned hourmarkers
Date window at 3 o'clock
Bracelet/StrapBlack or brown leather with matching buckle

The newest model in the RSW High King collection, which features classic watch complications, is The Regulator. The hours and minutes are, of course, separate, as the complication dictates: a Roman-numeral counter at 12 o’clock tracks hours while the long minute hand stems from the central pivot.







































Different case and dial combinations are available. Each features the RSW patented fold-out crank system.
The movement is an automatic RSW 1912 ETA based Dubois Dépraz 14070. (regulator, date, 29 jewels, 38-hour power reserve, automatic Swiss made)


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Sunday, March 18, 2012

ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual New Generation


















ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual Collection New Generation

The ARMIN Manual Collection with its own in-house produced AMW11 calibre is presented in its latest execution, displaying many detailed improvements. In the development of the new generation, the focus was on the individual elements of the watch movement, to ensure that the exclusive Armin Strom series includes the state of the art technology. The readapted gear-train guarantees an even higher efficiency level.

In order to minimize the power loss within the watch movement, the integration of the escapement has also been improved. As is to be expected of a traditional Manufacture, the hand-finishing of the movement decoration is of the highest quality. The noble, highly attractive dial with its new multi-level structure, offers the watch greater depth. The ARMIN Manual Collection clearly strives for technical and aesthetic perfection in every model and is available in a Limited Series of the four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
 ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual Earth

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ST11-ME.90 MANUAL EARTH
Manufacture movement ARMIN STROM AMW11 Caliber
Mechanical manual winding, off-centre time displays, small seconds
Frequency: 18,000 V/h
Jewels: 20
Number of components:112
Power reserve: 120 hours
For more info on caliber see last page
Case Stainless steel, black PVD coating
Sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment
Diameter: 43.40mm
Total height: 13.00mm
Water-resistance: 50m
Dial Black
Hands Stainless steel
Bracelet Genuine black “horn back” alligator strap with black PVD coated stainless
steel ardillon
Price $10,300
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 ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual Air

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TI11-MA.11 MANUAL AIR
Manufacture movement ARMIN STROM AMW11 Caliber
Mechanical manual winding, off-centre time displays, small seconds
Frequency: 18,000 V/h
Jewels: 20
Number of components:112
Power reserve: 120 hours
For more info on caliber, see last page
Case Titanium
Sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment
Diameter: 43.40mm
Total height: 13.00mm
Water-resistance: 50m
Dial White
Hands Stainless steel
Bracelet Genuine white “horn back” alligator leather strap with titanium ardillon
buckle
Price $13,000
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 ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual Fire

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ARMIN STROM - Armin Manual Water

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ST11-MW.05 MANUAL WATER
Manufacture movement ARMIN STROM AMW11 Caliber
Mechanical manual winding, off-centre time displays, small seconds
Frequency: 18,000 V/h
Jewels: 20
Number of components:112
Power reserve: 120 hours
For more info on caliber, see last page
Case Stainless steel
Sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment
Diameter: 43.40mm
Total height: 13.00mm
Water-resistance: 50m
Dial White
Hands Stainless steel
Bracelet Genuine dark blue “horn back” alligator leather strap with stainless steel
ardillon buckle
Price $10,300

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It has taken Armin Strom AG only a short space of time to establish itself in the small exclusive circle of watch Manufacturies. All components of the watch movements come from its own production in Bienne and are subsequently further processed in time-consuming manual operations. The skeleton watchmaking tradition of Armin Strom lives on in a modern form in the watches with their special movement architecture.
In November 2009, Armin Strom AG presented its first in-house production movement, the ARM09, with double going barrel and a power reserve of one week.

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Less than two years later, the young team of highly-qualified specialists is already introducing its second own-production movement at Baselworld 2011.
Like ARM09, the AMW11 (Armin Manual Winding 11) is also a manual winding calibre, but with a power reserve of some 120 hours.


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Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds
Winding: Manual
Impulse: Going barrel made of special brass
Gear-train: Hardened-through pinions, polished pinion leaves, wheels turned in non-abrasive manner with interlocking milling in the rolling process.
Plates and bridges: Produced from thermally relaxed watch brass
Jewels: Rubies individually produced for Armin Strom
Escapement: Escape wheel and pallets made of solid gold with hardened functional areas
Regulating system: Genuine screwed balance with gold screws, adjusting of the mass moment of inertia by four clamped steel screws, Breguet spiral curve
Frequency: 18,000 V/h
Number of jewels: 20
Number of individual parts: 112
Diameter: 36.60mm
Height: 6.00mm
Power reserve: 120 hours

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