P o c k e t W at c h e s
Urwerk
Urwerk’s UR-1001 Zeit Device Uber
Complication leaves classicism and
tradition behind in favor of an ultra
modern take on timekeeping. In the
truest ethos of its nature, the UR-1001
actually quantifies the span of an era
in its entirety - from fleeting seconds
to the entire millennia. Carved from
solid metal & titanium, the UR-1001
displays the passage of time in seconds,
minutes and hours and adds to that
indications for day/night, date, month,
years, 100-year cycles and unbelievably
even 1,000 years! It also has a separate gauge to mark the time until the
next “oil change”, or more accurately
the scheduled service interval. In the
fashion of its predecessors, The Zeit
Device uses rotating cones to mark
the hours, although in this version the
revolving hour satellites are paired with
an instantaneous retrograde minute
pointer. Modern materials like Arcap
corrosion-resistant alloys within and AlTiN (Aluminum,Titanium, Nitrogen) coatings without are a perfect match to the
Urwerk futuristic designs from founders
Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner.
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Wristwatch | 2016