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Urwerk

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Overview

Founded in 1997 by the watchmaker Felix Baumgartner and the designer Martin Frei; the name joins Ur, the Mesopotamian city where early timekeeping practice is recorded, with the German Werk. Urwerk builds the wandering-hours satellite complication — hour numerals riding on satellites mounted to a rotating carousel, each tracking a minute scale before indexing away. The principle is old, having been used in seventeenth-century night clocks, and Urwerk's contribution is to have made it a modern mechanically sophisticated wristwatch complication.

Notable innovations

  • · Satellite wandering-hours complication in a modern wristwatch
  • · Winding-efficiency indication reporting energy actually delivered by the rotor
Official name
Urwerk SA
Country
Switzerland
Founded
1997
Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Status
active

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