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TOURBILLON SKELETON WATER

The Armin Strom Tourbillon Skeleton Water watch is a masterful display of the company’s prowess for the traditional technique of skeletonisation.  With contemporary aesthetics throughout, this model features vibrant hints of blue as a representation for earth’s most vital of all elements, water, and it has been endowed with a showcase one-minute tourbillon.


In the ethos of the eponymous founder of the company, skeletonisation has been executed throughout the mechanics of the Skeleton Tourbillon Water model, in order to reduce its multi-layer calibre to its bare minimum.  This meticulous hand-work reveals the beauty of its industrious components, enabling the wearer to have a more intimate relationship with their wristwatch.


The watch carries a rounded 43.40 mm stainless steel case. Located at 6 o’clock, the unmistakeable protruding lip offers the potential for a bespoke, engraved motif.


Beneath the domed sapphire, a darkened, skeletonised mainplate with blue PVD elements, becomes the dial.  Having painstakingly reduced the gear-train bridges and barrel bridges to their bare bones, the craftsmen at Armin Strom have enabled a full exposé into the heart and soul of the watch.  At the uppermost of this multi-layer façade, a sapphire dial ring ensures that nothing is obscured.


Despite the compelling view of this complex architecture, the time is still highly legible.  The off-set sapphire dial ring features appliqué hour markers and cleanly executed minute markers, while the hours and minutes hands in steel have been given a generous coating of lume. At the 3 o’clock location, a sapphire plate, with visible screws proclaims the provenance of this impressive watch.


But, this is not merely a time-telling device it is also a lesson in horological anatomy.  By reducing their ATC-11S calibre to its bare bones, Armin Strom have revealed its essence.


Whirring in constant motion at the 9 o’clock location, a showcase one-minute Tourbillon incorporates a passing seconds display, indicated via a diminutive open-worked hand. And, offering another compelling feature, the fully exposed double barrels give an uninterrupted view of the winding mechanism.


Turning the piece over unveils a new panorama.  Through the rear sapphire crystal, the wearer is offered an uninterrupted view of the impeccable craftsmanship of the fully skeletonised Armin Strom Manufacture ATC-11S calibre.  Beating at a leisurely 18,000vph, the movement has an extraordinary ten days of power reserve.


The Armin Strom Tourbillon Skeleton Water wristwatch wears on a blue horn-back alligator leather strap and comes supplied with an additional blue rubber strap.


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