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Marussia F1 team racer Timo Glock visits Armin Strom manufactory

Last week the pilot of the only Russian team in Formula-1, Marussia F1, Timo Glock, who is also an ambassador for Armin Strom watch brand visited the company's production facilities in the Swiss city of Biel. The racer has immersed into the mysterious atmosphere of watchmaking and even tried himself as a watchmaker.
Before the start of the tense 2012 Formula-1 season and the long pre-season trainings Timo has found time to pay a personal visit to the brand's manufactory and take a closer look at the high quality timepieces' assembly and production process. Armin Strom AG company has been Marussia F1 team's official timing partner since the beginning of 2011 and during last year's Monaco Grand Prix the company offered its racers the new men's wrist watches from the ARMIN Racing Collection. This year Timo Glock will have a new partner in the team – the young, yet prominent French racer Charles Pic.
The ARMIN Racing Collection consists of four sports style watch models, executed with Marussia F1 team's signature colours – red and white. The collection's design was straightly influenced by Armin Strom brand's relationship with the racing team. During his visit Timo was stunned by the way that the watch assembly process is scheduled by every minute, which enabled him to draw a distinct parallel with his profession as a Formula-1 racer with smallest details, precise adjustments and perfect concentration often becoming the key for success. Timo experienced it himself during a watch assembly process, that proved his sufficient talent and he even expressed a willingness to assemble his own watch one day. Armin Strom gladly agreed to fulfill this wish and soon the sportsman will return to Biel to realize his ambition and create his personal Swiss wrist watch.
Under Armin Strom professional watchmakers' precise maintenance Timo will learn in detail all assembly process stages, starting with preparing individual components, most of which are produced at Armin Strom manufactory; engraving, executed by hand, which makes every timepiece unique; hand-beveling, cutting all the watch's edges and then giving them the brand's signature finish on machines; and finishing with the electroplating process, during which all engraved and decorative elements are covered with specific ruthenium coating. Timo Glock will assemble his unique men's wrist watch, that he'll be wearing throughout all 2012 Formula-1 season.

Claude Greisler, Head of Product development, shows Timo Glock the escapement crown  wheel pinion, which has just been produced  by the cutting machine.

Timo Glock receiving his training in watch movement assembly – and displays great talent!

Watch boxes for the Armin Racing collection – all personally signed by Timo Glock.

A comparison: an “upright” (part of the wheel and suspension assembly of an F1 racing car) and a winding wheel of a watch movement.

07.02.2012

 


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The Armin Strom watch brand creator is famous for his engraved hand-skeletonised watches. In 1989 he creates the smallest women skeleton-watch in the world that was noted in The Guinness Book of Records. Armin presents his masterpieces of high watch art at Basel Fair annually. In the beginning the watchmaker was specialized in antique watches restoration. In 1967, he purchased a boutique in Burgdorf, Switzerland, which was his workshop till 2000. In 2001, Armin Storm buys a new workshop in the watch capital of Switzerland – Biel. Here he continues creation of unique watch models in a strictly limited number. Armin Strom creat...
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