Armin Strom brings its Dual Time GMT Resonance into 18K rose gold for the first time, a warm 39 mm case that reframes the brand’s kinetic architecture with quiet glow rather than glare.
The dial keeps the model’s lucid logic: rose gold coloured polished hands and applied indexes over a black gold coloured grenage ground, with black azurage chapter rings clearly dividing the two time displays. An anthracite alligator strap with grey stitching completes the restrained palette. It is travel-ready without shouting about it.
Inside, the manual-winding manufacture calibre ARF22 is the point. Armin Strom’s patented resonance clutch links two independent regulating systems so their twin balance wheels seek harmony. The result is a three-dimensional display where two hearts try to beat as one – resonance pressed into daily service for two time zones.
Each dial carries its own hours, minutes and a day-night indicator at 6 o’clock, so local and home are read at a glance. The movement runs at 3.5 Hz – 25,200 vph – with a 42-hour power reserve. No gimmicks, just a clear brief executed with mechanical honesty.
Finishing is thorough and traditional in all the right places. The dial side shows engraved, mirror-polished day-night discs with sun and moon, hand-polished bevels, black-polished elements, circular graining and perlage. The back brings Côtes de Genève across the bridges. As with every Armin Strom, the watch is assembled twice – a discipline that reads in the edges and the poise.
Limited to 50 pieces worldwide, this rose gold edition does not reinvent the model so much as tune its timbre. The idea remains compelling: two time zones kept honest by a shared pulse. A traveler’s companion that values construction over theatrics.
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