Stories

In Biel/Bienne, Armin Strom finishes the case of the Tribute 1 Green entirely by hand, and assembles each watch twice: once for precision, and again after decoration.

Mark Cho, co-founder of the menswear retailer The Armoury, wanted a Ressence that could live with a suit, and founder Benoît Mintiens refined his ideas into one.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei set three hour satellites on a flying carousel, then made them change places in a hundredth of a second.

Czapek’s latest split-seconds chronograph honours Karel Čapek, the Czech novelist whose play R.U.R., first performed in Prague in 1921, introduced the word “robot” to the wider world.

Engineers Sylvie Villa and Mark Miehlbradt of Wire Art gave old microchip-bonding machines a new purpose: wiring a watch dial in pure gold.

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.