Many of you will recall Urwerk’s EMC – Electro Mechanical Control watch that was released a couple of years ago. For those who refresh to refresh their memories, go to our earlier post at this link. This year Urwerk has… Read More ›
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URWERK : UR-106 Black Pink Lotus
You may recall last year’s release of the Urwerk UR-106 Lotus, which came in black and white versions. The first overtly female-oriented Urwerk timepiece (bearing in mind women have been buying the unisex Urwerk pieces prior to this), at 35mm… Read More ›
URWERK : the UR-105 T-Rex
In 2014 Urwerk introduced the manual-wind UR-105 via the Iron Knight and Dark Night, followed in 2015 by the automatic UR-105 TA (Turbine Automatic) Knight, whose movement is regulated via dual air turbines visible on its back. There were then… Read More ›
NEW MODEL : Urwerk UR-106 ‘Lotus’
Meet the UR-106 ‘Lotus’ , the brand’s first watch aimed at women, although it is worth noting that they do have a solid female ownership and following as it is. As Chief designer and co-founder Martin Frei says – “We… Read More ›
NEWS : Nine new brands to join SIHH 2016, one to leave
SIHH 2016 will be quite a different proposition to SIHH of recent times, with a new ‘Carré des Horlogers’ (Watchmaker’s Square) featuring nine new brands/ independents joining the Richemont powerhouses, and the departure of Ralph Lauren from the Salon International… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : with Urwerk’s tweedy side
Late last year Urwerk announced what was a surprisingly ‘old-fashioned’ limited edition of their UR-110. Aptly announced during London’s Salon QP, team Urwerk held a private launch of the UR-110 ‘Eastwood’, a collaboration with English tailor Timothy Everest. I had… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : the URWERK EMC – Electro Mechanical Control
Earlier this year Horologium had the opportunity to look at URWERK’s mechanical ‘smart’ watch, the EMC, ‘in the metal’. ‘EMC’ stands for ‘Electro Mechanical Control’ – that is, the combination of a mechanical watch with a micro generator. The idea… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : with Urwerk’s Zeit Device
When is a pocket watch not a pocket watch? When even its creators don’t use the term but call it “a grand über complication”. Oh, and there’s also when the ‘pocket’ watch can’t actually fit into a pocket. We are… Read More ›
An Explosive Encounter : the C3H5N3O9
MB&F and URWERK aren’t strangers to Horologium, and the combination of their quirky and at often groundbreaking approach to timepieces last year courtesy of the C3H5N3O9 Nitroglycerine Experiment ZR102 was unexpected and generated a lot of buzz, but also paid… Read More ›
An interview with Felix Baumgartner of URWERK
Recently I had the opportunity to meet he whom I refer to as ‘the first Felix Baumgartner’, as opposed to the other jumpy chap. The five year old jumpy Felix was dreaming of parachutes and skydiving, but at the same… Read More ›
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