The luxury watchmaker revisits its earliest collection to create this watch, which is marketed as its entry-level timepiece among the brand’s collections
The sci-fi elements in Urwerk’s timepieces have set the independent watchmaker apart from the other brands since its inception in 1997. With an eye for avant-garde design and its sights firmly set on the future, Urwerk has risen meteorically through the ranks, now sitting in the upper echelons of independent watchmaking. Its latest piece, the UR-100 SpaceTime, is every bit as science fiction‑inspired as it sounds.
While the watch displays time through the brand’s signature satellite hours and linear minute display, the UR-100 SpaceTime is innovative for its two additional displays—one at 10 o’clock, indicating the distance that earth has travelled on its own rotational axis, and another at 2 o’clock, showing the distance travelled by earth around the sun. Because of the nature of Urwerk’s satellite hours, both these distances are calculated over a time frame of 20min, essentially being a cosmic odometer for our planet.
Urwerk prepared four short films for the UR-100 SpaceTime. Watch the first one below: