{"id":218826,"date":"2025-12-06T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:55:12","slug":"how-urwerks-otherworldly-new-watch-tracks-movement-in-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218826\/","title":{"rendered":"How Urwerk\u2019s Otherworldly New Watch Tracks Movement in the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"

When seasoned collectors think of Urwerk\u2014the independent watchmaker founded by Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei in 1997\u2014they likely picture the satellite (or \u201cwandering\u201d) hours complication. Developed in the 17th century, the system displays the time with an orbital disc (or discs) that indicates the hour and points to the minute along an arc that sits on the periphery of the dial.<\/p>\n

And though the complication is now an Urwerk signature, the Genevan maison has plenty of other horological tricks up its sleeve. To wit: Check out the brand-new UR-10 Spacemeter<\/a> ($94,000). With its integrated bracelet and rather conventional syringe-style hands, it appears\u2014at first glance, at least\u2014like a luxury sports watch. A closer examination of the model\u2019s three subdials, not to mention its lack of pushers, quickly reveals that this is not a standard chronograph, but an orbital distance tracker.<\/p>\n

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Inspired by a 19th-century clock that Baumgartner\u2019s watchmaker father, G\u00e9rard, restored, the Spacemeter is a miniature astronomical complication and tracks the distances traveled by several heavenly bodies. The counter at two o\u2019clock measures every 10 kilometers the Earth travels in its daily rotation (in increments of 500 meters), while another one at four o\u2019clock tracks every 1,000 kilometers the sun has moved, calibrated in 20-kilometer steps. Finally, at nine o\u2019clock, is a counter called Orbit that combines these two trajectories into a single totalizer, measuring every 1,000 kilometers of the Earth\u2019s rotation and every 64,000 kilometers of the solar orbit on synchronized blue and white scales. (Flip the watch over, and you\u2019ll find a 24-hour track, as well as indications for the Earth\u2019s rotation and revolution over a 24-hour period.)<\/p>\n

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The approachable but futuristic UR-10 Spacemeter<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering why you\u2019d ever possibly need this information, you may be overthinking things: This is 2025, after all, and most mechanical watches are vestigial appendages of an increasingly distant technological era. But if you can suspend your disbelief for a moment, the beauty of the UR-10 Spacemeter\u2014which is available in a limited edition of 25 titanium dials and 25 black dials\u2014captures a bigger picture. \u201cChange unfolds because we move\u2014through space, through moments, through existence,\u201d Frei tells Robb Report. \u201cIn its mechanical choreography, the UR-10 reminds us that time is not something we observe. It is something we inhabit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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