The UR-105 TA embodies all the years of research invested into URWERK’s wandering hour satellites. Here, the ingenuity of the mechanism lies in the invisible carousel responsible for the operation of the satellite hours. Four satellites made of aluminum and mounted on their own bronze/beryllium Geneva cross - all precisely cut on URWERK’s CNC machine tools - slowly orbit to display time. The hidden carousel has been treated with ruthenium then bead blasted to a finish meeting the very highest standards of haute horlogerie. Four satellites made of aluminum and mounted on their own bronze/beryllium Geneva cross - all precisely cut on URWERK’s CNC machine tools - slowly orbit to display time. Each satellite completes four 120° turns in the period between leaving the minutes arc and arriving again, displaying a new numeral. A circular canopy with openings highlights the current hour. Once the hour has elapsed, the satellite – guided by a Geneva cross – rotates as it continues its orbit for another three hours before returning to center stage. Each satellite indicates the time in both analogue and digital fashion as it arcs across the minutes chapter. This banana-shaped minutes chapter is satin-fnished and its numerals painted with orange Super-LumiNova®. The UR-105 TA Clockwork Orange features dual air turbines on full show on the back through two sapphire glasses in an impressive titanium body. These turbines are coupled with the rotor and adjust the speed of the winding ... in an impressive titanium body. system to minimise wear. The winding mode on the UR-105 TA is selected by a small lever in sandblasted and brushed titanium.The selector switch controls the amount of air escaping from the turbines. The bezel of the UR-105 TA comes in steel with a brushed finish. It will be treated with a PVD process to turn it black. Casing up of the movement. One of the final and most sensitive steps before a full week of testing.
Watches
PVD, Steel, Titanium
39mm, 53mm
Black, See Description
Hours, Minutes, See Description
Automatic
Fabric
“We began essentially as a core group of artists who wanted to interpret time differently. We were not businessmen. It was extremely risky because we had no idea how our watches would be accepted.”
A new perspective to Haute Horlogerie Founded in 1997 by Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei, URWERK is the result of a strongly held be-lief that the history of Fine Watchmaking is a constantly changing art. Felix Baumgartner, a watchmaker like his father and grandfather, has time running through his veins. A graduate from the Schaffhausen watchmaking school, Felix learned the secret language of minute-repeaters, tourbillons and perpetual calendars at his father’s bench. Martin Frei is the artistic counterweight to his partner’s technical expertise. Accepted into the Lucerne’s college of art and design in 1987, Martin delved into every form of visual artistic expression from painting and sculpture to video, emerging as a mature artist. | The two men met by chance and discovered a common fascination with the measurement of time, spending hours analysing the gap between the watches they saw in the shops and the vision of their future creation. The wandering hour has since formed the basis for URWERK’s astonishing 103 watch and the latest models, the UR-105 TA and the UR-210. They all feature highly original design, advanced watchmaking techniques and new concepts. URWERK means “original accomplishment,” and Ur of the Chaldees, in Mesopotamia, is where the Sumeri-ans first observed the concurrence of the heavenly bodies with the seasons, and so developed the first measurements of time.
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