Drawing components from each Urwerk and Ulysse Nardin, the 2 Swiss rivals, have collaborated for the primary time to create a really distinctive limited-edition timepiece.
Primarily based on a mixture of Ulysse Nardin’s signature flying carousel “Freak” complication, which rotates round its personal axis, and Urwerk’s iconic “UR” wandering hours satellite tv for pc show, the timepiece mannequin title is an acronym that merges the 2: UR-FREAK.
The hours show options three satellite tv for pc arms, every with a domed disc, and the hours seem on one of many three domed discs. When the earlier hour’s satellite tv for pc arm finishes its 60-minute journey alongside the minute scale, the following hour’s disc immediately “jumps” to the lively place to start its observe.
Minutes are learn by following the pointed tip of the lively satellite tv for pc arm because it sweeps throughout a 60-minute scale retrograde, which is arced alongside the precise aspect of the dial. Your complete satellite tv for pc system is a part of a “flying carousel” that rotates and completes a full circle each three hours.
A light-weight sandblasted titanium case weighing 109.61 grams and measuring 44 mm x 13.7 mm homes the distinguished 42.15 mm caliber UN-241 automated motion. Protected by a domed sapphire crystal on the entrance and an open caseback that’s secured with particular person screws, the UR-FREAK is waterproof to 30 meters. The motion beats at 3Hz, consists of 25 jewels, 263 complete elements, and provides a formidable 90-hour most energy reserve. It contains a DIAMonSIL® silicon escapement, a know-how which Ulysse Nardin pioneered.
Derived from Ulysse Nardin’s Freak know-how, the time is about by rotating the bezel, and the watch is robotically wound through a system known as the “Grinder,” and can be wound manually by way of the caseback.
It’s fascinating to see two rivals merging applied sciences that arguably end in a synergistic product, that’s extra imaginative and interesting than one thing carried out as a solo act.
The UR-FREAK (Ref. 2413-500LE-2A-UR/3B) is a numbered restricted to 100 items. Retail is $122,200. Study extra at Ulysse Nardin.
Photograph by Urwerk/Ulysse Nardin.
