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Martin Frei, Chief Designer and co-founder of URWERK, designs each watch to change with the angle, the light and the movement of the wrist.

Engraver Florian Güllert gave nearly three months, around 500 hours including the design phase, to carving the titanium case of a single URWERK pocket watch.

URWERK co-founders Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner turned a science-fiction gesture into a complication, and for the last UR-120 they dress it in deep blue and gold.

The UR-10 grew from a Gustave Sandoz clock with three astronomical dials, discovered and restored by Gérard Baumgartner, father of URWERK co-founder Felix Baumgartner.

Among the one-of-a-kind watches URWERK keeps in its workshop is one that slid time across a 180-degree arc beneath a diamond-studded sky.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have turned a wandering hour satellite into a marker that follows sunlight from the Sun to the planets.

In 1996, Gérard Baumgartner found a clock that measures the Earth’s travel rather than time, and later gave it to his son Felix, master watchmaker and co-founder of URWERK.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei set three hour satellites on a flying carousel, then made them change places in a hundredth of a second.

URWERK gave its bronze case scales to touch, not just to see, and let Martin Frei describe the metal as something almost alive.

Martin Frei built the UR-120 Space Black around one idea: black changes how the eye reads an object's size.