Urwerk
EMC Time Hunter Sand
$144,548
URWERK has never shied from reimagining time, but with the UR-10 SpaceMeter, it ventures beyond it. Round, centered hands and concentric counters may seem heretical to the brand’s orbiting DNA, yet they mark a bold evolution of its philosophy. This Special Project tells time and it measures the Earth’s cosmic voyage. Its trio of sub-dials tracks our planet’s daily rotation, solar orbit, and combined trajectory across space, while the caseback poetically mirrors the Earth’s counterclockwise revolution around the sun.
The spark came from Felix Baumgartner’s father, who once restored a 19th-century Gustave Sandoz clock that charted Earth’s movement rather than time. That rediscovered mechanical enigma became the inspiration for URWERK’s first SpaceMeter. With partner Martin Frei, Baumgartner combined heritage and futurism into a wrist-borne cosmic instrument.
Made in steel and titanium and powered by a Vaucher base movement with URWERK’s own ultra-light LIGA mechanics, the UR-10 also debuts a Double Flow Turbine, twin counter-rotating propellers that regulate winding and mesmerize in motion. At just 7.13 mm thick, it is an engineering paradox: minimal, yet galactic in ambition. The UR-10 is a perfect example of URWERK’s essence, uniting human legacy, evolving design, and fearless horological invention in a reflection on time, motion, and our place among the stars.
