URWERK UR-100 SpaceTime

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Tracking the Earth as it spins and flies through space and time.

The #ur100 takes us on a journey through both time and space, two concepts at the very core of #urwerk. Using its orbiting satellite hours and minute hands, the #ur100 displays both time (hours and minutes) and space (distance travelled), merging these two concepts in the creation of the all-new #ur100 SpaceTime.

The #ur100 SpaceTime features URWERK’s iconic orbital hour satellites, differing however in one significant way. Rather than the red-arrow-tipped minute pointers on the hour satellites disappearing after 60 minutes when replaced by the next, the #ur100 minute arrow passes beneath and between subsidiary dials, reappearing to display intriguing new astronomical indications: distance travelled on Earth and distance travelled by Earth.

Distance travelled on Earth

The first indicator at 10 o’clock evaluates the distance in kilometers that we have travelled on the Earth without even leaving our desks! It is based on the average speed of the rotation of the Earth on its axis at the equator, covering a distance of 555 km every 20 minutes.

Distance travelled by the Earth around the sun

Directly opposite at 2 o’clock, the same hand (well it looks like the same hand, but is actually one of three) continues its journey to another celestial indication featuring the distance the Earth has travelled in its orbit around the sun – a journey spanning some 35,740 km every 20 minutes.

The #ur100 simultaneously presents three different space-time realities, providing a thought-provoking reminder of our voyage through time and space.

“For me, watches have a philosophical dimension. They are a physical and abstract reproduction of our situation on Earth, with the dial representing the equator, simultaneously in constant motion while seemingly stationary for us,” says Martin Frei, chief designer and co-founder of #urwerk.

Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker and the other co-founder of #urwerk agrees: “We live in a universe governed by three dimensions — time, rotation, and orbit — that we attempt to measure and master, but what escapes us is this notion of spacetime.”

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