UR-1001

I'm extremely excited to have just picked up one of the new UR-150s that recently debuted from Urwerk. More than 15 years ago a friend of mine sparked my interests in watch collecting, and one of the brands that really helped ignite that spark was Urwerk.

I had written a post at the weekend, when I took these pictures, but for some reason the post never showed up and I didn’t have a draft. I was, am, too lazy to rewrite it. However the gist of that original post was regarding the vision of Urwerk and wheth

BaselWorld 2015 - URWERK URWERK showed two new models this year, the UR-1001 and the UR-105TA. The UR-1001 is more like a table clock than a watch, but it does include a demountable frame and strap for those who need to strengthen one arm. The UR-1001 sho

Time-measuring instruments have marked significant epochs in history for millennia. Six thousand years ago, the shadows cast by obelisks in the Sumerian city of Ur revealed the passage of the sun; two thousand years ago, astronomers in ancient Greece used