Friday, 4 March 2016
Urwerk UR-105 "T-Rex"
Seemingly belonging to the Cretaceous Period, the Urwerk UR-105 T-Rex
features a bronze crisscross patterned case, reminiscent of dinosaur
scales. Limited to just 22 pieces, the UR-105 T-Rex is powered by a t.02
UR automatic double turbine movement. The mechanism contains
satellite-like disks orbiting within the case to indicate hours, read
from left to right. The bronze case features a black PVD caseback and
measures 39.5 by 53 millimeters and sits 16.8 millimeters off the wrist. “The UR-105 T-Rex represents the symbiosis of two dimensions, time and
space,” Chief Designer and Co-Founder of Urwerk Martin Frei said. “The
means chosen to indicate the time is ancient, inherited from the
Sumerians and dating back to the second millennium BC, when the shadow
cast by the sun playing across their imposing monuments served as their
clock. It is nonetheless truly contemporary. In this case, today, the
position of our satellite on the dial plays the decisive role, by
focusing our attention on the moment in hand. The past no longer exists
and the future has yet to be created. All that counts is the time being
displayed. What will we do with these 60 minutes?” (iwmagazine)
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