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Weekly News Roundup: February 15-February 22, 2020
Baselworld Reconfirms Event Schedule In Wake Of Coronavirus Scare, Watches & Wonders Expected To Proceed On Schedule2020 has been a shaky year so far for the Baselworld trade show. Several of the industry’s largest brands have announced their withdrawal from the tentpole event, citing reasons from scheduling conflicts to new marketing strategies with an increased emphasis on single-brand events. In addition, the past several weeks have seen several major watch industry events, including Swatch Group’s Time to Move show and the Grand Seiko Summit in Japan, cancelled due to mounting concerns about the ongoing global coronavirus epidemic. While tensions throughout the watch world may be high, Baselworld representatives announced in an official statement this week that the show will occur as scheduled from April 30 through May 5 in Basel, Switzerland, and further reassures attendees that a comprehensive set of precautions and an emergency health action plan is in place in c
Armin Strom Tourbillon Gravity Fire Watch With Micro-Rotor
Whatever you may think of the practicality of a tourbillon in a watch, there’s no escaping that they are quite a visual treat to watch while they work away. Normally when a watch has one, though, that’s all you really see of the movement from the dial side. The folks over at Armin Strom give us more of a show, however, as they follow the design direction it’s namesake founder (a Master Skeletonizer) set for the brand 40 years ago. Their latest gives us another treat that I don’t know I’ve ever seen visible from the front of a watch.The trick that the Armin Strom Tourbillon Gravity Fire (ref RG14-TF.M.90) has up its sleeve is a micro-rotor. As you might suspect, a micro-rotor is simply a smaller version of the rotors we’re used to seeing in an automatic watch; these usually lead to a thinner watch than you might normally have as well.