ARMIN STROM – One Week Skeleton Collection

ARMIN STROM – One Week Skeleton Limited Edition NEW

With the release of the ARMIN STROM One Week Skeleton Collection, the ARMIN STROM manufacture has realised the dream of its founder – to create a skeleton entirely manufactured in-house.

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The ARMIN STROM One Week Skeleton Collection again proudly reflects the distinctive features that led to the credentials and fame of the master watchmaker from Burgdorf. Thus, the going barrel springs are visible through the winding wheels. The blued small seconds hand and the bridge cut outs echo past creations.

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Pursuing the balance between void and matter, this watch ensures that the role of even its smallest wheel combines functionality with aesthetics. It reinterprets tradition with a sparing use of high-tech tools to conceive and skeletonise the movement, combined with highly expert component decorating skills.

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For the collector, the ARMIN STROM One Week Skeleton Collection, available in a yellow, rose or white gold case, represents a bridge between two worlds: The world of secular, aesthetic references and the world of inhibited watchmaking that transforms its ideas into watches.

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Technical Specifications

Ref. RG14-WS.5N   One Week Skeleton

Movement
ARMIN STROM calibre ARM09-S
Manual-winding,
7-day power reserve,
Small seconds,
Off-centre time indications
Distinctions:
Fully skeletonised main plate,
Gear-train bridges and barrel-bridges,
Decorated with classical hand-engravings
Frequency: 18,000 A/h
Jewels: 34
Number of individual components: 146
Case
18ct rose gold
Sapphire crystal and case back with anti-reflective treatment
Diameter: 43.40 mm
Height: 13.00 mm
Water resistant to 50 m
Dial ring
Sapphire with founded appliques
Hands
Rose gold
Straps
Delivered with a genuine black or brown alligator horn-back strap and
18ct rose gold ardillon buckle as well as an additional black or brown rubber strap.
A double-fold clasp in 18ct rose gold is available on option
Edition
Limited to 50 pieces

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For more information relating to this press release or to Armin Strom:
Bettina Fleury, Armin Strom AG,
Tel. +41 32 343 33 44, b.fleury@arminstrom.com
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Blancpain – Villeret Carrousel Moon Phase

Blancpain – VILLERET Carrousel Moon Phase NEW

BASELWORLD 2014
First-ever encounter between a carrousel and a moon phase 

Blancpain presents a movement uniting two of the brand’s most iconic horological complications. The carrousel and the moon phase. This new model in the Villeret collection once again expresses the tradition of innovation driving the Manufacture

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The new Blancpain 225L movement unites a carrousel, a moon phase and a date for the very first time. Having been consigned to oblivison over a century, the carrousel (karussel) was brought back by Blancpain to the forefront of the watchmaking scene in 2008, with the introduction of the world’s first flying carrousel to perform a one-minute rotation.

Blancpain – 225 movement
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Like the tourbillon, the carrousel also aims to reduce the effects of gravity on the rate of the movement. The distinction between these two devices lies in their construction. Whereas the tourbillon is linked to the barrel by one gear train, the carrousel has two : the first supplies the energy required to drive the escapement ; while the second controls the rotation speed of the carriage.

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The moon phase is another complication that had experienced an almost total eclipse until it was reintroduced by Blancpain in the early 1980s. This new fully secured movement, comprising 281 parts including 61 for the carrousel carriage alone, is equipped with silicon balance-spring technology and endowed with a five-day power reserve.

This new timepieces bears all the signature codes of the Villeret collection. The double-stepped case frames a cambered grand feu enamel dial ; a blued steel serpentine hand indicates the date, while the delicately hollowed sage leaf-type hour and minute hands sweep gracefully across painted enamel Roman numerals. The white dial features a 12 o’clock opening revealing the carrousel carriage with its complex mechanism, set exacatly opposite the moon-phase indication at 6 o’clock.

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The back of the 42 mm-diameter case carries the two under-lug correctors designed to adjust the date and moon phase. This patented Blancpain innovation enables smooth tool-free handling and also serves to preserve the pure lines of the case. The same concern for detail is devoted to the finishes which are visible through the sapphire crystal case-back providing a view of the movement adorned with Côtes de Genève as well as the openworked and striated oscillating weight distinguished by a design echoing that of the carrousel carriage. An alligator leather strap in chocolate brown for the 18-carat red gold version, or black for the platinum limited

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Le Rocher 12
1348 Le Brassus
Suisse
Tel.  (+41) 21 796 3636
Fax (+41) 21 796 3637
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