Category: Urwerk

FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Breitling showcases the Top Time among automotive royalty, Naoya Hida presents a new case, URWERK remain URWERK

Jumping right into another edition of the FWD, Breitling hosted a top event at Melbourne’s Dutton Garage for their Top Time line of chronographs. Inspired by iconic American cars, the Top Time pieces sat next to their respective inspirations – the Mustang, Corvette, Cobra and Thunderbird.   View this post on Instagram   A post … Continued

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12 months ago

Introducing – The Full Titanium URWERK UR-100V Magic T

If you look at the collection of watches offered by independent watchmaker URWERK, there are certainly some bold and visually striking watches. Colourful accents, sci-fi-inspired cases, and displays unique to the watchmaking world. But the brand has also demonstrated more than once – specifically with its UR-100 collection – its ability to play on the […]

12 months ago

T+T’s favourites from the upcoming Independents Ineichen Auction

Ineichen Auctioneers are renowned for promoting some of the most exciting watch auctions in the last few decades, and the upcoming Independents Auction is shaping up to shock and surprise. The focus hasn’t just been put on independent watchmakers, but specifically some of their rarest and even unique pieces that will command a lot of … Continued

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Introducing – Back To The Future With The Urwerk UR-102 Reloaded

Urwerk‘s co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei first discussed their ideas for a new piece back in 1995 and officially founded the company in 1997. That same year, they launched the UR-101 and UR-102 watches at Baselworld, sci-fi-inspired creations with wandering hours running on a semi-circular minute track at the top. Recently, these two simple […]

A Technical Perspective – The Curious Case Of Hybrids In Watchmaking

Quartz and mechanical watches have learned to co-exist, but the call of nature still produces mixed offspring. If one almost killed the other, mechanical watches rose from the ashes and returned stronger than ever. However, just like the automotive world, things are changing, and the watchmaking industry has seen the arrival of new wrist-worn technologies, […]

Introducing – The Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat Back to Black

If you are looking for a watch with a novel time display, Urwerk is your port of call. The UR-112, which abandons the brand’s signature wandering hours display, was dreamed up in Urwerk’s Special Projects laboratory. Introduced in 2021, the UR-112 Aggregat is a compendium of complexity, technicality and radical design with a marked nostalgia […]

Introducing – The Urwerk UR-100V Blue Planet

Launched two years ago, the UR-100 has new become Urwerk’s core collection, a sort of back-to-basics concept for the brand, with more restrained proportions, slightly simplified and a more accessible price (relatively speaking, of course). Since the inaugural editions, the brand has enlarged its collection with the Gunmetal, the Gold, the Iron or the mean-looking […]

3 years ago

The Collector’s Series – François-Xavier Bought His URWERK UR103.08 TiAlN To Have Fun!

Today I’m talking with long-time friend François-Xavier Overstake, aka @equationdutemps. This is not just his Instagram handle, but also the name of his blog about watches, which is probably one of the most important French publications on watches. Besides running his own blog, Francois-Xavier is a moderator on Watchprosite, a large watch forum. At 51 […]

3 years ago