Urwerk UR-Satellite | UR-100V Iron | The Hour Glass New Zealand

UR-100V IRON

URWERK has added a new watch to its UR-100 series. The UR-100V Iron comes cased in steel and titanium, monochrome and unadorned, to highlight its most delicate finish — all done by hand. No colours here but subtlety. Form and finish together create an ever-changing chiaroscuro over polished, matt, sanded and shot-peened surfaces. Here is the UR-100V Iron! In addition to URWERK’s trademark satellite configuration of the wandering hours and minutes, the UR-100V Iron brings your spin through space into sharp focus. When the minutes hand has completed its 60-minute journey, it reappears on a 20-minute scale of 555 kilometres. This is the distance you travel in 20 minutes if you are standing on the equator of our rotating planet. The opposite scale tracks your journey through space around the sun: 35,740km every 20 minutes. In the display on the UR-100V Iron, time and distance are on a par, the hours and minutes in blue, and the kilometres in bright white. Watchmaker and URWERK’s co-founder, Felix Baumgartner, reveals that he got the idea from a clock given to him by his father, Geri, a noted restorer of antique clocks. “It was made by Gustave Sandoz for the Universal Exhibition of 1893. Instead of showing the time, it showed the distance travelled by a point on the equator.”

SPECIFICATIONS

Dimensions:

Width 41.0 mm x Length 49.7 mm x Thickness 14mm
Water Resistance:

3ATM
Calibre:

UR 12.01 Self-Winding Movement With The Winding Rotor Governed By A Windfänger Airscrew
Function:

Hour Satellite And Minutes Indicators. Rotation Of The Earth In 20 Min. Revolution Of The Earth Around Sun In 20 Min.
Frequency:

28.800 v/h, 4Hz b

Jewels:

39
Movement Winding System:

Aluminum Satellite Hours On Titanium Geneva Crosses, Aluminum Carousel, Triple Bridges In ARCAP
Case Materials:

Titainium And Stainless Steel
Surface finishes:

Circular Graining And Sanding, Shot Peening; Chamfered Screw Heads; Hours And Minutes Painted In SuperLumiNova
Crystal:

Sapphire Crystal

Controls:

Two-Position Winding Crown
Strap:

Blue Alacantra with A Titanium Buckle
Limited Edition:

25 Pieces