Armstrong Rockwell Fine Jewelry, Hartford Connecticut

Armstrong Rockwell Fine Jewelry is proud to be authorized agents for: Audemars Piguet, BlancpaiN, Hublot, Jaquet Droz, Perrelet, Roger Dubuis, and IWC, seven fine Swiss watch brands. Our German brand, Glashütte Original, takes it's rightful place along side our world renown Swiss watches. We are also now authorized dealers for Urban Jurgensen & Sonner of Copenhagen. Each of these magnificent timepieces are handmade and designed to perfection by master craftsmen. Armstrong Rockwell is also an authorized dealer for the British watch brand, Dent. This prestigious brand is most famously know for the creation of the Great Clock for the Houses of Parliament, familiarly known as Big Ben. Armstrong Rockwell is now also representing Swiss independent Thomas Prescher as well as McGonigle Watches, an independent Irish watch house. Armstrong Rockwell is also pleased to carry some of the finest jewelry in the world from: Hearts on Fire, Honora, Baby Honora and Michael Beaudry Boutique. We now also carry the Calla Cut diamond.

Armstrong Rockwell Fine Jewelry is a unique boutique style store, unlike most independently owned, or chain stores; combining modern technology with old world values. Our staff, as well as the products we carry, represent this balance. Located in downtown Hartford for over twenty-eight years we offer an extensive collection of some of the finest jewelry and watches available worldwide.


Armstrong Rockwell is very proud to represent Swiss independent, Thomas Prescher. Thomas Prescher entered the German Navy at the age of 19, finishing with a ‘Kapitän Pantent’ in 1991. After completely his service in the Navy, Thomas Prescher decided the time had come to turn his lifetime passion and interest in watch making into a tangible reality. Thomas Prescher began his career in watch making by entering the four-year IWC apprenticeship. After completing the apprenticeship in only three years he worked for Audemars Piguet for a year and a half. This was followed by his work with the firm of Gübelin Luzen as a watchmaker where he specialized in the restoration of antique pieces, complicated watches and custom built pieces. This experience only deepened his already existing interest in complicated watches. By the time his studio was founded, Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie, this predisposition for complicated watches made him well known in the collector community. In 2003 Thomas Prescher was accepted as a candidate member of the AHCI, and presented his Double Axis Tourbillon pocket watch and a bras en l’air wristwatch under the AHCI flag at Baselworld. The tremendously positive reaction to these works convinced him to develop the Tourbillon Trilogy. This set is a triple world premiere: this is the first set to contain a Single, Double and Triple Axis Tourbillon with an in house movement by an independent watchmaker; this is also the first time that such wristwatch tourbillons have been built with a constant force (remontoire) mechanism in the carriage; and the world premier of the Triple Axis Tourbillon wristwatch.

	An American -and water power- brought IWC to Schaffhausen over 135 years ago. A few years after its foundation, the "American" watch factory passed into Swiss hands. Its product philosophy- "Probus Scafusia": good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen- came into being some years later and is still the company motto today. It is suitably expressed in the factory and case stamp, and stands for watchmaking at the highest level, to be handed down from one generation to the next.

Armstrong Rockwell is proud to be an authorized dealer for Audemars Piguet, a 135-year-old company that offers on the finest handmade watches in the world. Audemars Piguet is one of only two Swiss watch houses privately owned by their founding families. Production is kept very small so as to concentrate on detail, allowing the company to create amazing innovations in watch complications.

	Armstrong Rockwell is also an official BlancpaiN agent. BlancpaiN is the oldest name of all the fine Swiss watch houses, dating back to 1735. With his intuition and dedication the founder, Jehan-Jacques Blancpain, set the precedence for generations of watchmakers to create the finest timepieces, raising timekeeping to perfection. BlancpaiN has remained true to its heritage by offering "The Six Masterpieces", it's Collection Villeret, Collection Le Brassus, and Collection Leman.

Armstrong Rockwell has been representing Roger Dubuis since 1999. A highly sophisticated brand, introduced in 1995, Roger Dubuis was launched by Roger Dubuis and Carlos Dias themselves under the philosophy of "art and respect of traditions". Roger Dubuis is prestigious in making every watch, using distinct case shapes and dials and also limiting each collection to twenty-eight pieces for the world. This exclusive quantity portrays the superior quality of Roger Dubuis timepieces

	Armstrong Rockwell recently became one of the few boutiques authorized to represent the Swiss watch brand, Jaquet Droz. This collection of watches embodies the humanistic and scientific spirit perpetuated by this highly regarded mechanical genius.

Armstrong Rockwell is now proudly representing a German watch brand, Glashütte Original. Glashutte, a little known town in Saxony's Miegliz Valley, first began its manufacture of the watch in 1845. The now used name of Glashütte Original was created in 1994. Glashütte Original watches compliment functionality and precision, utilizing the most modern technologies. The style is not to be glamorous, but to express the individuality of the wearer.

	In the late 1970's gold watches were always fitted with a matching bracelet, it was this that allowed Carlo Crocco, founder of the firm MDM that produces Hublot, his idea which would set the Hublot apart from other watches of it's time. At the time watches were designed by hand, without the help of computers, and when the case was designed a black strip was placed where the bracelet would normally be. It occurred to Crocco to leave the black strip, but he did not wish to use the usual leather strap. He thought that, perhaps, it could be a strip of rubber. Everyone from his family, and even the suppliers, thought Crocco was crazy, but today the rubber strap, now cleverly scented with vanilla, is still a defining trait of the Hublot line today.

Equally as stunning as our watches are our triple zero, ideal cut, branded diamonds from Hearts on Fire®. The diamonds are superior in quality to any other diamond in today's marketplace, and still have no equivalent to date. Hearts on Fire® has advanced the age-old technique of diamond cutting to new levels of eye-catching beauty. The science and technology behind Hearts on Fire® diamond cutting results in the most amazingly brilliant diamonds.

	Armstrong Rockwell has hand picked an exotic collection of Tahitian South Sea, Chinese Freshwater, and Japanese Akoya pearls from Honora. Some of our larger sized strands have taken years to create and bring to market, a few of the pieces being so rare as to be unique in the world. Unfortunately, many customers are not properly introduced to these small miracles of the sea and their uniquely amazing beauty. We now also carry Baby Honora.

Armstrong Rockwell is also glad to introduce the newest edition of fine jewelry available to our discerning customers, Haute Couture, which showcases some of the most breathtaking pieces in the market.