The New Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat Again to Black

If you’re in search of a watch with a novel time show, Urwerk is your port of name. The UR-112, which abandons the model’s signature wandering hours show, was dreamed up in Urwerk’s Particular Initiatives laboratory. Launched in 2021, the UR-112 Aggregat is a compendium of complexity, technicality and radical design with a marked nostalgia for the legendary Bugatti Atlantic Kind 57 SC. Just like the horny curves of the Bugatti Atlantic, the UR-112 Aggregat reveals a streamlined profile, full with a hinged bonnet. At this time, Urwerk publicizes the arrival of the UR-112 Aggregat Again to Black mannequin with a black DLC-treated metal and titanium physique.

I’m in love with my automobile

As Martin Frei, co-founder and creative director of Urwerk acknowledges, Ralph Lauren’s Bugatti Atlantic was the muse behind the UR-112. “It was love at first sight,” admits Frei. “Its good strains, its backbone operating alongside its physique, its Artwork Deco options. This Bugatti is a real surprise!”

Sharing the identical formidable dimensions and construct as earlier variations of the UR-112 (51mm size x 42mm width x 16mm thickness), this third mannequin combines black DLC-treated titanium and metal to craft the complicated 30m water resistant case.

Referencing the central backbone operating down the Bugatti Atlantic’s physique, a seam traverses the sloping case, successfully dividing the hunter-like bonnet on the highest a part of the watch. By miserable the lateral pushers, the hinged bonnet rises to disclose the facility reserve indicator on the left and the digital seconds show on the fitting. Just like the grille of the Bugatti, the bonnet is adorned with vertical velocity strains. Nevertheless, in contrast to the sooner UR-112 fashions, the grooves on the bonnet are minimize into the blackened metal revealing glimpses of the indications beneath.

The central physique is manufactured from black DLC-coated titanium and handled to sandblasted, bead-blasted and satin-brushed finishings. With no carousels with satellites or rotating cubes to show the time, the UR-112 shows leaping hours and trailing minutes on revolving prisms. Sharing the same format to driver’s watches, the hours and minutes are housed in giant sapphire crystal cylinders on the entrance of the watch. They’re displayed on black aluminium triangular-shaped prisms that transfer in sharp, exact jumps. The hours leap on the left, and the minutes advance in 5-minute increments on the fitting with a trailing indicator pointing to the precise minute. No much less spectacular at midnight, on a regular basis indications and the facility reserve are handled with Tremendous-LumiNova that emits a blue glow.

Computerized UR-13.01

This fabulous but light-weight machine – it weighs simply 25.2 grams – is powered by heavyweight mechanics. Geared up with automated calibre UR-13.01, the motion depends on an extended titanium transmission shaft to ship the facility from the massive barrel to the energy-hungry time shows. In distinction to the UFO aesthetics, the finishings are extremely conventional, together with round graining on the bridges, Côtes de Genève and polished screw heads, to call just a few.

AVAILABILITY & PRICE

The Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat Again to Black is proscribed to 25 items and retails for CHF 280,000. For extra data, please go to Urwerk’s web site.