Reading Time: 4 minutesWith an overflowing imagination, URWERK amazes each year with timepieces isolated from other worlds and stories. Even if the watches are various re-edition, the independent brand keeps the Sci-Fi note strong by using new ideas or materials. So is the case of the URWERK UR-100 Gold Edition. This pure breedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe URWERK EMC TimeHunter White Ceramic aka Stormtrooper was an easy nickname to choose, from Martin and Felix’s love of sci-fi and in particular, Star Wars. The universe that George Lucas built have heavily influenced the design of URWERK timepieces over the years.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesURWERK has added a new watch to its UR-100 series. The URWERK UR-100V Iron comes cased in steel and titanium, monochrome and unadorned, to highlight its most delicate finish — all done by hand. No colours here but subtlety. Form and finish together create an ever-changing chiaroscuro over polished, matt,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe collection of UR-220 watches has taken off. The initial version in carbon has now been joined by a new model — the URWERK UR-220 All Black. URWERK is exploring all the shades of its lucky colour. Black will always be black, but it comes in many textures.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesJust a few months after launching its UR-210 “final edition” model, the independent watchmaker, URWERK, has put into orbit a newcomer in its UR-Satellite collection: the UR-220 “Falcon Project”. With its manually wound movement and control board on its back, the new UR-220 goes back to URWERK’s earlier technologies in aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesOut-of-the-box, out of competition and out of this world as befits any URWERK creation, the new EMC Time Hunter features an unprecedented surface finishing ensuring an amazing result: a military beige chronometer teamed with a camouflage canvas strap that earns it the nickname Desert Sage. This watch is a fighter,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesURWERK unveils today the last edition of its iconic UR-210, so now is the ideal time to highlight the seven features that have made the UR-210 so special:Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, it is the time for a new episode of Naissance d’une montre. Please check the press release below. This project is realised under the umbrella of Urwerk, Greubel Forsey, Philippe Dufour, Ferdinand Berthoud.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesNaissance d’une montre 2 – Chapter 2: To make the Naissance d’une montre 2 project as authentic as possible, Dominique Buser and Cyrano Devanthey, assisted by David Friedli, had to build a watch under the watchful eye of a committee. This committee was not a band of savvy marketing executives,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a spark shot out of the ether. Radio telescopes reveal that the shining golden object hurtling toward earth appears to be trying to communicate, emitting signals in six million languages. Could it be C-3PO, the protocol droid in the StarContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesIndependent Swiss watchmaker URWERK has always championed innovation. And its latest model, the URWERK UR-111C Two Tone – now in a striking Two-Tone (TT) black PVD and brushed steel, teardrop profile case – is no exception. Certainly, as part of the “Special Projects” line – a deviation from the wanderingContinue Reading