Felix Baumgartner demonstrates his personal UR-210

Late last year I met with Felix who was wearing the prototype UR-210 . The watch had been on his wrist for 11 months and he had just delivered the first eight pieces to customers. Join Felix in this video as he shows the features and functioning of the UR-210.

Felix conveyed a recent story that demonstrated how robust the design was: “In Hong Kong someone dropped it from a height of one meter. My heart stopped for a moment but the watch survived. It was a good test.”

"A double star mechanism turns and releases the retrograde minute hand back to zero. We first designed this system for the Opus 5 and then evolved it further."

“Our traditional side means that our watches are wearable and you can read the time comfortably. Unlike some modern watches, ours are not ‘art pieces’.”

The UR-210 provides “dialogue” with the owner by showing the wearers personal activity. Urwerk have built on this theme with the new EMC.

The watch is 43.8mm long and 17.8mm thick but made in light titanium and steel and with the wide strap wears comfortably.

"Antireflective coating on the inside of the sapphire only so the outside cannot be scratched."

39h power reserve indicator

Patented winding efficiency indicator (EFF.) demonstrating your personal activity over the previous two hours

Rear automatic winding efficiency adjustment

“When you are wearing the watch or if it is beside your bed at night you can feel or hear the hour passing.”

My thanks again to Felix Baumgartner who was very generous with his time and shared his passion and enthusiasm.

Andrew

This message has been edited by AndrewD on 2013-09-29 18:02:08

Wonderful Post, Fantastic Watch.

By: Whirling : September 29th, 2013-16:42

These watches are masterpieces. That they are so original, yet legible and wearable, is truly an accomplishment. I worry that, if I were to wear one, I would stare at it all day and never get any work done. Also, there would be little risk of me doing any...

Good complication but superfluous maybe ?

By: akitaishi : September 29th, 2013-22:27

It's interesting to read about this new complication and I agree that it is useful. Just wondering if this complication is superfluous , especially when the PR indicator is there. To me, while the PR indicator indicates the amount of power reserve and the...

Good comments

By: AndrewD : September 29th, 2013-23:24

The Efficiency display is a 'snapshot' of your activity, averaged over the previous two hour period. Unless you are being very active, or waving your arms around, the power reserve is not going to move very much in that 2 hour period. You are of course co...

yes , I like the review..

By: akitaishi : September 30th, 2013-04:24

and the pictures that you provided. Urwerks has always been very innovative in their design of watches. The rotary arms that shows the hours and minutes are so "Urwerk" by now, that it has become the brand characteristic. Most people who notice the watch ...

Further comments

By: AndrewD : September 30th, 2013-15:52

Thanks for your thoughts and reactions to the Urwerk watches. Alternative ways of time telling, not using traditional two hands, go back hundreds of years and while many companies, like AP, have dabbled I think it is true to say that Urwerk have made an a...

I thought that it was a good review. I wonder of what use..

By: Ronald Held : September 30th, 2013-14:38

Is a power reserve if it is under two days? That is not just for an Urwerk.

I think an RdM indicator is ...

By: AndrewD : September 30th, 2013-15:10

... useful on any automatic watch. The state of wind is so dependent on your degree of activity and winding efficiency of the movement that you otherwise never know the state of wind of the mainspring. [Completely unlike a manual wind watch that you can j...