Independent brand
Urwerk
Also recorded as: URWERK · Urwerk SA
Geneva independent known for 'satellite' wandering-hour displays in sculpted cases.
Urwerk was founded in Geneva in 1997 by the watchmaker Felix Baumgartner and the designer Martin Frei, with Felix's brother Thomas Baumgartner. Its watches revive the wandering-hour display of seventeenth-century night clocks: rotating satellites carry the hour numerals past a minute scale, so the time is read along an arc rather than with hands.
Models are numbered UR-, from the first UR-101 and UR-102 to later pieces with rotating cubes, service indicators and the UR-100 series. Urwerk also builds technical showpieces such as electro-mechanical regulators.
- Country
- Switzerland
- City / centre
- Geneva
- Founded
- 1997
- Status
- Active (independent)
- Key people
- Felix Baumgartner (co-founder, watchmaker); Martin Frei (co-founder, designer)
Innovations & specialities
- Satellite wandering-hour displays
- Revolving hour cubes and service indicators
Timeline
- 1997Founded in Geneva; UR-101 wandering-hour watch shown at the Basel fair
Works by Urwerk in the catalogue
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Wristwatches · 2007
Urwerk UR103.08 TiAlN, 2007
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2014
Urwerk UR105M Iron Knight, 2014
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2019
Urwerk UR100 Spacetime Black, 2019
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2019
Urwerk UR100 Spacetime Iron, 2019
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2019
Urwerk UR100 Spacetime, 2019
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2020
Urwerk UR100 Spacetime Gunmetal, 2020
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2020
Urwerk UR100 Spacetime Iron, 2020
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2021
Urwerk UR100 Blue Planet, 2021
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2021
Urwerk UR100 Blue Planet, 2021
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2021
Urwerk UR100 Electrum, 2021
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2021
Urwerk UR100 T-Rex, 2021
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Wristwatches · 2023
Urwerk UR102 Reloaded Black, 2023
S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle
Linked through the Atlas maker authority list, which reconciles the spellings used by different institutions. Attributions are as stated by each holding institution or auction house.
