Armin Strom collaborates with CSEM

Emmanuel Dominé (CSEM) and Claude Greisler

Finding new solutions to old ideas and even new technical innovation is what drives the watch industry and continues to make it fresh and interesting.

“At the moment we are working with CSEM (Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology) to improve the resonance clutch spring of our Mirrored Force Resonance, to precisely evaluate how theory and reality can and have coincided,” explains Claude Greisler, director of Armin Strom.

The introduction of Mirrored Force Resonance in late autumn 2016 brought with it a lot of extreme reactions: admiration, astonishment, reverence, and in some cases even incredulity.

Working with CSEM has officially confirmed that Armin Strom’s Mirrored Force invention is in resonance. Like with all new inventions, however, the company’s own resonance clutch spring can certainly be optimised; one of the elements being worked on at the Neuchâtel-based R&D organisation is the simulation of new designs and materials to understand what the different – and perhaps optimised – results of a new material or shape could bring to the invention.

Resonance is a sophisticated horological technique that has been applied to timepieces by only a few truly gifted watchmakers in the pursuit of both accuracy and stability. It is an unusual technical innovation that, even though rooted in hundreds of years of horological history, is still not often encountered. The advantages of resonance are threefold: a stabilising effect on timekeeping, increasing accuracy; conservation of energy; and a reduction of negative effects on timekeeping accuracy due to outside shock to the balance staff (stable rate).

Thanks to the collaboration with CSEM, the Mirrored Force Resonance is entering the second phase of its exciting lifespan.

November 16, 2017