The future of luxury watches is Urwerk
Both futuristic and elegant, luxury watches “Urwerk” offer a whole new way of counting time. They define themselves as the vanguard in the Veterinary profession. Unique not only watches, but the fact that stands behind Urwerk still quite young design team. Obviously the experience rather than liberated them dogmas of the standard design of watches and they fly in a completely new and completely welcome. Urwerk company was founded in 1995. In Geneva, two brothers-clockworks – Felix and Thomas Baumgartnar and their friends Martin Frey, who is a designer. The ambition of the three partners to develop unique and expensive watch that is unmatched. Even the very name “Urwerk” is not at all accidental. Ur is an ancient Sumerian city, where people have used giant solar clocks to account for time before 6000 years. Werk means “work”, “create”, “develops”, “form”, etc. of German. Together the two words are translated from German as “movement” taking into account the movement of elements in the clock mechanisms. Only two years after the founding of the company appears first unique clock Urwerk, called 101. Again in 1997. logging and 102. 101 is made of gold and 102 of the steel, metal and furthermore no other differences. The clocks are extremely bizarre and seemingly can be frightening asking “And how much is it?”.
The clocks are a hit in Europe and the United States despite their rather high prices. It was only in 2003. Urwerk you present the new jewel – a clock with the name … 103. In 103 concept is even more unique and many times more futuristic than the previous two models. Four rotating on its axis satellite-like disk associated with another four-arched show hours. Arch itself even driven in a circle drive and four counts so minutes. The work of the luxury watch can be compared with movements between planets in a common system, but either way is a unique idea that makes the product easy to use and again sought worldwide. In 2004. appears new jewel of Urwerk – model Opus V, which was carried out with the support of Winston Nari. The clock has a solid arrow minutes, at the end was attached to its axle, drive 3 Cuba, reporting classes. Under semi-circle, which describes the pointer dials are located on the phases of the moon and the dates. Immediately after the Opus V 103.3 appeared in 2005. – New, improved model of its predecessor 103. The watch is in solid mahogany box with a futuristic shape and extra cover with fine engraving and inlaid with sapphires. As the clock design does not differ from 103 to who knows what.
In 2007. the market goes Urwerk 201. Through telescopic “arms” that opravlyava three ‘pop’ satellite records of the hours may be reported minutes. “Hands” precisely pursue three vector marking the minutes: 0-14, 15-44, 45-60. Urwerk this year decided to show us next luxury model, cross 103T – more open, with more mechanical parts and the more futuristic kind of Urwerk think this is a vision for the future of watches
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