The future of luxury watches is Urwerk
Monday, September 28th, 2009
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?”.
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