URWERK has added a brand new open-satellite style to the collection of unusual timekeepers, the main UR-120 SOMETIMES KNOWN AS Spock.

URWERK’s existing ‘satellite’ time shows feature rotating carousels involving three hands, each tipped with 4 rotating hour or so numerals. Just one arm is actually ‘active’ any kind of time one time, monitoring against some sort of 60-minute range to display hr and moment, before the following arm goes into place to take more than.
The UR-120’s new ‘open satellite’ program instead views each equip tipped along with two revolving cubes which display a new numeral whenever side-by-side. While not being used for keeping time the sedentary displays individual, rotate by themselves axis after which reform to improve the numeral displayed prior to again becoming called upon to show off the time. The entire movement is said to appear like the Vulcan salute through Star Travel, hence the Spock moniker.

“When all of us realized i was going to need to open the actual satellite, I had been over the celestial satellite, ” states Felix Baumgartner, URWERK’s co-founder and learn watchmaker. “Our biggest problem has always been to handle forces. In the exact second of the salute, a lyre-shaped spring starts and then near the satellite tv. Managing power then and complex and incredibly subtle. We have to manage the particular opening and also the stud rotator. We wound up manufacturing typically the spring ourself, in-house, simply because we had research so many tests while determining its geometry and width. ”
TheUR-120 follows often the now stopped UR-110 as well as “furthers the exact codes” of this watch.

“The idea was to go in your thinner, softer, more elegant path, ” Charlie Frei, co-founder and URWERK’s Artistic Movie director. “To do this, we newly designed the entire dish and directv system. Every satellite is currently made of 2 sub-elements to really make it thinner, simpler to read and also to give it unrivaled fluidity. ”

The watch : presented throughout sandblasted metal – steps 44mm through 47mm having a depth connected with 15. 8mm, while the situation is constructed of interlocking upper and lower elements, something Frei stated had been inspired through the work with Gerald Genta, and articulated, spring-loaded lugs.