America?s largest luxury watch event, WatchTime New York, is returning for its sixth year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 22-24. This year?s event is shaping up to be one our best yet, with more than 25 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Armin Strom, which is introducing the Tribute 1, a modern reinterpretation of a classic haute-horological dress watch.

Armin Strom, founded in 2006, has long positioned itself as the heir to a long tradition of manually wound dress watches, serving as a modern torchbearer for that luxury space and bringing classic designs and styles into a contemporary format. The Tribute 1 revisits this legacy, characterized by its classical proportions and exceptional hand finishing. It’s a timepiece that carries on historical codes while simultaneously introducing novel, modern aesthetic elements that also speak to its technical refinement.
The stainless steel case, classically sized at 38 mm in diameter and 9 mm thick, serves as the canvas for the watch, its geometric, brushed lugs, mirror-polished bezel, and top-right-side crown adding to its distinguished look. The case is secured to the wrist by means of a gray Alcantara calf-leather strap, whose softened, grained look matches the colorway found on the dial.

Underneath the front-facing sapphire crystal is a gray-tinted dial whose composition and color Armin Strom describes as ?offset black gold.? ...