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URWERK\u2019s horological Skunk Works launches a series of 25 time – and space – measuring instruments into orbit. UR-100V \u201cBlue Planet\u201d tracks the earth and our solar system: it\u2019s a 24-hour invitation to interstellar travel and the pleasure of savouring time.<\/p>\n
With interplanetary imagination, science-fiction iconography and limitless creative freedom, URWERK has its roots in spatial horology. Using out-of-this-world graphic traits inherent to all URWERK timepieces, the UR-100V collection adds an astrophysical dimension.<\/p>\n
The astronomical action takes place under a large observation dome, where, upon finishing indicating the minutes in the 0-to-60 arc along the bottom of the dial, the vivid green and yellow arrowhead hand (one of three) disappears \u2013 only to reappear at 9 o’clock to track the 555.55 kilometres the earth rotates at the equator every 20 minutes. The hand then reappears again at 3 o’clock to display a kilometre counter tracking 20 minutes of the earth’s revolution around the sun (35,742 kilometres).<\/p>\n
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Blending form and function, calculation and imagery, and theory and actuality, the UR-100V is adorned in blue: blue for the steel case, blue for the atypical movement, blue for the orbital carousel. A blue recalling our planet earth.<\/p>\n
The blue hue of the UR-100V \u201cBlue Planet\u201d is deep, dense, and matte. As URWERK\u2019s designer Martin Frei explains, \u201cWhen I create and when I paint, all colours resonate in me, but particularly blue. During my education at the Academy of Arts and Design in Lucerne, I had the chance to study the great Florentine artist Giotto. He was the first who, at the end of the Middle Ages, painted the sky blue \u2014 dethroning Byzantine gold \u2014 and launching the \u2018realistic\u2019 style of painting is normal today. I love the colour of Giotto\u2019s blue sky; it\u2019s the same sky as ours. Blue is a colour that surrounds us, that encompasses us. ”<\/p>\n
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The colour of the UR-100V \u201cBlue Planet\u201d tells the story of a trajectory transitioning between earth and space. \u201cWe have miniaturized and reinterpreted our solar system. We get lost in the depths of the rotating carousel of the UR-100V. It is a plunge into space, a fall into nothingness. It’s a new horological odyssey with our head in the stars and feet on the ground. It\u2019s a reverie in blue,\u201d concludes Felix Baumgartner.<\/p>\n