Urwerk's pricing is outlandish, but it's a bit like picking on Patek Philippe based on the annual and perpetual calendar complications being democratized. The difference is the knock offs are not offering a product that advances the older idea that they a
I'm extremely excited to have just picked up one of the new UR-150s that recently debuted from Urwerk. More than 15 years ago a friend of mine sparked my interests in watch collecting, and one of the brands that really helped ignite that spark was Urwerk.
The visionary founders of Urwerk: Felix Baumgartner (the Swiss watchmaker, not the daredevil Austrian stuntman, there are two famous people with the same name) and Marin Frei continue to amaze. They keep on coming out with out-of-the-box ideas that are fr
When compared with their pricier offerings, the UR100 surely could be called as the URWERK entry level piece; though at $60K it still burns a hole through the wallet. While their hallmark style of Satellite wandering hours display and the retrograde point
Urwerk has announced the release of “Urwerk EMC TimeHunter Stormtrooper” ( phew!!!) in a 5 piece L.E. Except for the bead blasted white ceramic case, the watch is no different from the predecessor model. Huge, at 43x51 the watch will occupy quite a bit of
While Urwerk is truly original when it comes to the satellite and rotating hands display, it would be useful to point out that they use base calibers from Zenith ( Elite caliber) and Girard Perregaux . If I recall right, the EMC was however a ground-up co
I had written a post at the weekend, when I took these pictures, but for some reason the post never showed up and I didn’t have a draft. I was, am, too lazy to rewrite it. However the gist of that original post was regarding the vision of Urwerk and wheth
The great strength of Urwerk is to have built an identity based on the wandering hours time display. Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have created watches that are distinguished by the perfect coherence between design and display. But this strength can b
that AMC 😍 I almost bought the EMC last year.. I wanted the X-ray but stock was a problem. Can’t find one that time. Attached is my all time favourite URWERK masterpiece! Thank you for sharing! Cheers 🥂 Jen
For my eyes Ressence has made the most important new product announcement at the SIHH this year with it's eCrown Type 2. Here we are seeing the next steps in marrying mechanical watches with the presicion possible with quartz timekeepers, so called "agmen