Exploring Titanium Elegance: URWERK’s UR-100V Magic T Unveiled

The Magic of Titanium: Design Complexity and Elegance

“This UR-100V Magic T fully deserves its nickname evoking the magic of titanium. This material lends itself beautifully to the finest finishes. We have loved and admired raw titanium, and now we have it gleaming in full brilliance, thanks to light, refined shot-blasting. All the beauty of the metal is there. We also worked on the legibility of our timepiece, adding complexity to the dial that is now broken down into several elements to give it more structure. Try to distinguish between the many different levels of this 3D creation and you will discover that everything has been thought through right the way down to the smallest details, pushing the limits of perceptibility”, says Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker and co-founder of URWERK

The Essence of Innovation in URWERK’s UR-100V Magic T

Right from the outset, the 100 collection was conceived with simplicity and minimalism in mind. ‘Simple’ is an easily uttered word that nonetheless cannot totally reflect the full extent of Martin Frei’s aesthetic linguistics and Felix Baumgartner’s horological technicality. The former plays with shapes, creating a design vocabulary that is a living language. The latter constantly reinvents new ways of bringing to life URWERK wandering hours – the principle of hands-free hours and minutes display based on satellites moving along a graduated arc of a circle. A first carries the hours and the other the minutes. And when one hours satellite has completed its 60 minutes, the next one bearing the next hour appears in front of the number zero minutes index

The Cosmic Connection: UR-100V as a Symbol of Exploration

No one would have imagined that this principle, extrapolated from a 17th-century clock, could be explored, transformed, and transmuted with such creativity in space, volume, and time. URWERK’s capacity for reinvention without ever deviating from its fundamental principles is doubtless the core reason behind its longevity. Demonstrating a strong sense of nuance, the UR-100V Magic T can logically be compared to a ‘color exploration vehicle’. In the metaphorical sense, it is just as much so as its predecessors; while aesthetically speaking, many of its details relate to celestial bodies.

Embracing the Celestial Realm: UR-100V’s Journey Through Space

Even more explicitly than all other URWERK creations, the UR-100V is entirely bound up with the realm of space. Not just because its design can be described as that of a UFO. Not merely because its impossible-to-categorize design evokes a whole different dimension beyond the boundaries of current watchmaking. It bears two long recesses on the sides of its satellite carrier. The first is a counter for kilometers – those traveled by the Earth along its axis in 20 minutes, namely 555. The other also counts kilometers – this time those traveled by the Earth around the Sun during the same period of time, namely 35,740. The UR-100V thus bears witness to the Earth’s trajectory through the interstellar void, where our blue planet is accompanied by a Magic T-colored heavenly body.

UR-100V Magic T – Limited Edition