America?s largest luxury watch event, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 25-26. This year?s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Armin Strom, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary of its Biel-based manufacture with the Minute Repeater Resonance.

While Armin Strom (the man) began his watchmaking career in 1967, the contemporary brand that is headed by Strom’s longtime family friend Serge Michel and his watchmaking partner Claude Greisler was established in 2009. That makes 2019, a year already packed full of anniversaries, the ten-year celebration of the brand’s vertically integrated manufacture in Biel/Bienne. Armin Strom has done an impressive job of establishing itself as an independent watchmaking force within the minds of collectors and enthusiasts over the past decade, with its recent efforts in pioneering new forms of resonance application the obvious highlight. To commemorate the decennial, Armin Strom has announced the Minute Repeater Resonance, the second timepiece within the brand’s Masterpiece collection thatThe Armin Strom Minute Repeater Resonance offers the immediate distinction of being the world’s first chiming wristwatch that features the phenomenon of resonance. The brand says it was inspired by a clock tower called the Zytglogge that has s...