URWERK UR-10 Spacemeter Black Dial

An unusual day is upon us! After nearly 30 years, Urwerk has released an all-new timepiece with a round dial and “classical” hour and minute hands, pinned to the center of the dial. What at first glance may appear to be alien (or even, sacrilegious) to the corpus of Urwerk timepieces is reconciled through closer inspection. As is the case with watchmaking, everything is in fine details. 

Taking a deeper look at the UR-10, it is unequivocally a member of the ‘Special Projects’

Family. The outlier, out-of-the-box, groundbreaking collection has some of our favorites from Urwerk –  the UR-112 and Space-Blade. Here, the UR-10 features three sub-dials, but it is no regulator. Nor is it a chronograph or any type of calendar watch. Its subdial indications do not measure the passing of time. Dubbed the “SpaceMeter” for good reason, the UR-10 measures the distances our planet travels across the time-space continuum. A world first, this is something brought out of the brand’s earlier experiments showcasing the relationship between time and space in the UR-100. 

The three subdials on the UR-10, marked EARTH, SUN, and ORBIT, each showcases the following: 

• Every ten kilometers the earth travels in its daily rotation in increments of 500 meters (subdial at 2 o’clock);
• Every 1,000 kilometers the earth travels around the sun in 20 kilometer increments (subdial at 4 o’clock); 
• Both trajectories of the earth’s rotation and the rotation around the sun in combination in two synchronized scales (subdial at 9 o’clock). 

It’s a striking usage of three subdials, bringing the collector’s attention to the inseparable relationship between the time we experience and the universe’s movements around us. 

On the back of the case, a peripheral hand traces the hours on a 24-hour scale, mirroring a full rotation of the Earth. The caseback is engraved with indications of both Rotation and Revolution: Rotation reads clockwise, while Revolution is read anticlockwise. This striking opposition reflects the Earth’s own anticlockwise revolution, a poetic reminder of the cosmic dance.

Though far from a “typical” Urwerk timepiece, the signature design is easily recognizable – the oversized crown at 12 o’clock, the integrated, sandblasted bracelet, and overall shape and profile of the case. An impressive new space-time measuring watch, the UR-10 is limited to 25 pieces in each of its two models – titanium and black dial versions.