The UR-100 design has been a popular one for URWERK since its launch, and the new UR-100V Ultra Violet brings a new colour to the UR-100V family in a sanded shot-blasted titanium case.

We’ve covered the model a number of times before, but for those who are unfamiliar, the UR-100/V series uses the brand’s orbital satellite hours and minute ‘hands’ with an open-worked carousel, the UR-100 series displays both time (hours and minutes) and space (distance travelled). However, rather than the minute pointers on the hour satellites disappearing after 60 minutes to be followed by the next, the minute arrow passes beneath and between the subsidiary indications, reappearing to display the distance travelled on Earth, and distance travelled by Earth. The indications are orbital hours; minutes, distance travelled on Earth’s equator in 20 minutes, distance Earth travels around the sun in 20 minutes.

The indicator at 10 o’clock relates to the distance in kilometres and is based on the average speed of the rotation of the Earth on its axis at the equator, covering a distance of 555 km every 20 minutes. At 2 o’clock there is the indicator for the distance travelled by Earth whilst orbiting around the sun every 20 minutes.

The case is a violet-coloured DLC sanded shot-blasted titanium, and measures 41mm x 49.7mm x 14mm. It is water resistant to 30m.

Powering it is the automatic URWERK in-house Calibre UR10.02 which beats at 28,800 VPH and has a power reserve of 48 hours. There is a bi-directional rotor and it features a combination of circular graining, sanding, shot-blasting, and circular satin finishing.

Coming on a textured white rubber strap with a titanium folding clasp, the RRP is CHF 55,000.

[Photo credit: URWERK]

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