Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UR-100V saga continues with a new addition to the collection, the URWERK UR-100V Full Titanium Jacket: a single-colour version featuring different shades of grey, from Payne grey to lead grey. This limited-edition UR-100V is enhanced by a custom-designed metal bracelet.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UR-112 Aggregat is the latest addition to URWERK’s Special Project collection, a laboratory offering horological freedom and follies encouraged. URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker, and Martin Frei, artistic director and designer, started this new adventure from a blank page. And a sketchbook overflowing with ideas. The UR-112 Aggregat was inspired by a dream of a new mechanical challenge.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes“While we are not the nostalgic kind here at URWERK, we are proud to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our 110 collection. This is a creation that won the Best Design prize in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève; that faced evil on the wrist of IronMan, the mostContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesGeneva Watch Days 2021 – for me: 5 days, 28 brands, 38 meetings (including the social events), a lot of champagne and just a few hours of sleep. But the most important would be the chance to see present and future releases. This will be a short presentation of myContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesElectrum is one of the original precious materials, regarded by the ancients as a veritable treasure. This gold and silver alloy was indeed much coveted among Ancient Greeks, Amerindian civilisations and Ancient Egyptians. While the first coins were minted from this metal, the noble, flamboyant, luminous material gradually fell intoContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is an iconic model, jealously safeguarded until now at the heart of the watch Maison, since it marks the beginning of the URWERK adventure in the 1990s. The foundation stone. A watch of almost disconcerting simplicity, with a wandering hour as its only marker of time. The UR-102. ThisContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesNight finally enfolds the city. It is at this precise moment that the URWERK UR-220 SL Asimov comes to luminous life. A UR-220 model whose hours satellites glow as they gently emit the light stored up during the day. A fluorescence that accompanies the counting of the hours and rendersContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes“At URWERK we took radical decisions very early on: deciding to remain independent at all costs and limiting our growth despite all the advice to the contrary were among the most important. To continue staying true to ourselves, to remain URWERK, we make less than 150 pieces per year. ThisContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of Zürich’s most established auction house – Ineichen Auctioneers, presents us a very interesting catalogue for their next action, the 174 Watch Auction, that will be held on 22 May 2021 at 13:30 in the Metropol Zurich. From their catalogue, I have selected some pieces that I particularly like.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesURWERK’s horological Skunk Works launches a series of 25 time – and space – measuring instruments into orbit. URWERK UR-100V “Blue Planet” tracks the earth and our solar system: it’s a 24-hour invitation to interstellar travel and the pleasure of savoring time.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesT-Rex is the name given to the latest iteration of Urwerk’s UR-100 collection. It carries both Urwerk’s genome in its satellite hours and that of its namesake in the primal texture of its reinforced hide of bronze. The UR-100V T-Rex is decidedly a creature you’ll want to tame. But wouldn’tContinue Reading