Independents

I was very fortunate to get to meet Felix Baumgartner, co-founder and master watchmaker of Urwerk, together with Urwerk's US based representative Phil Ogle earlier this week to see Urwerk's most recent Special Project the UR-111C. They had the two variati...  

Thanks for the report and pics. M4

Very lucky of you to be able to see this tremendous piece! Congrats!

I like this sort of craziness.

All very clever but a niche watch if I may politely say so. Thank you for the informative review.

Looking forward to see it in person and try it on the wrist . Thanks for the report .

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The case back actually curves on the wrist.

Urwerk also deserves a lot of credit for continuing to innovate and improve. AMC earlier in the year, and now we've got the second generation of the cobra. Am really looking forward to seeing this in metal next week. Ken

I think people sometimes see the evolution of the 103 to 105 to 105CT and think nothing new is going on there but with this, the original Cobra, the AMC as you mentioned it's clear there's a lot going on. Felix mentioned that their aim is to have one new ... 

But this one is just hard to read the exact time on. One of the things I always loved about URWERK was their innovation around mechanics but it was always easy to read the time on their watches. They never lost the essence of function in their creations. ... 

Felix said something to the effect of we just wanted that display to give you a sense of the time on a very quick glance. And I think it will do that. Would need to handle it again to really determine if one can easily see the jump hour and the linear min... 

To read the time. Prefer the other Urwerk watches

NT