Introducing: The Urwerk Time Hunter X-Ray, A New Take On The EMC

Urwerk is a company known for shaking things up. Funky colors, outlandish displays, and in-your-face finishes are hallmarks present in almost every watch. These are love-em-or-hate-em timekeepers and they don’t try to be anything else. Urwerk’s latest creation is no exception. This is the Time Hunter X-Ray, a skeletonized watch that tracks its own performance.

8 years ago

New Release: Urwerk TimeHunter X-Ray

Urwerk is one of the uber cool watchmakers which we always keep an eye out. The dynamic team of Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei are full of interesting ideas. In 2014, they introduced a world first of a watch which is purely mechanical, and yet sports an electronic monitoring device which allows the owner to check the beat rate of the watch…

8 years ago

Introducing – URWERK EMC TimeHunter X-Ray, the skeletonized version

The URWERK EMC TimeHunter is not just an impressive face. Like always with this independent manufacture, the design is… different, bold, aggressive, outrageous or futuristic (choose the desired adjectives). The EMC TimeHunter is far more than that, it is simply unique and revolutionary. Based on the self-adjustment of the movement so dear to the brand, this watch added the self-monitring capacity, in a very technical way. This highly-innovative watch receives a facelift and now comes in a skeletonized version, the URWERK EMC TimeHunter X-Ray.

8 years ago

Urwerk EMC TimeHunter X-Ray Watch

Featuring a fold-away winding crank on the side that you wind to charge a super capacitor, the Urwerk EMC TimeHunter allows you to monitor the watch’s accuracy with a precision monitoring device as well as monitoring balance amplitude. Previous iterations were very cool, but the new Urwerk EMC Time Hunter X-Ray is so named because of its skeletonized dial which affords a look inside its fascinating mechanics.

8 years ago

Introducing the Urwerk EMC TimeHunter X-Ray

Fusing traditional watchmaking and electronics, the latest iteration of the Urwerk EMC features a skeletonised dial that reveals the mechanics of the movement. First introduced in 2013, the EMC attempts to perfect the old fashioned mechanical wristwatch with high-tech: an electronic rate monitor powered by a hand crank, which indicates whether the movement is running fast […]

8 years ago

New TAG Heuer Aquaracer Black Titanium Watches For 2016 Hands-On

Under the leadership of Jean-Claude Biver, TAG Heuer has been making some moves that are helping to reenergize the brand. The TAG Heuer Aquaracer keeps getting better, and these new models improve on the previous version with cool black PVD titanium cases and hip, vibrant colors.

8 years ago

Fratello Watches Top 10 Chronographs

Chronographs Before we hit it with our top 10 chronographs overview, a few words about this list. A chronograph is one of the most popular complications (besides a date), and it is actually a very complex mechanism. It is the reason why some brands still don’t have their own chronograph movement and use one from […]

8 years ago

Bell & Ross Introduces the Tattoo-Inspired BR 01 Burning Skull

One of the hottest watches in the mid-2000s, the BR 01 has now entered maturity, and so has to go further to stand out. While keeping the aviation instrument-inspired watch case, the BR 01 Burning Skull is elaborately decorated with inked engravings. Covering all faces of the square case, the Burning Skull radically different look from the […]

8 years ago