At Armin Strom – thanks to the more than forty years' experience of the company's founder – skeletonising is also the most traditional form of watch embellishment. To begin with, all the material that is not essential for the mechanical stability of the movement is removed from the plates and bridges by sawing and filing. The architecture of the movement and the engagement of the wheel train are exposed in this way, and the watch becomes a work of art to be appreciated in three dimensions. Armin Strom spends around one week on each watch. The working instruments of the skeletoniser are the fretsaws and the watches differ from on another in numerous details.
At first sight, Armin Strom AG today has little in common with the master skeletoniser's original business. Individual pieces crafted by hand in the minutest detail were the foremost priority in those days, and Armin Strom worked alone for many years. Today the company is a true Manufacture equipped with the latest machine tools, and its employees produce small series of watches of the finest quality fitted with an in-house movement.
