The Lizard King cometh
To understand the motivation behind Urwerk’s UR-105 T-Rex timepiece, one needs only to look at its pebble-shaped bronze case – hand-patinated with a textured, bark-like coating similar to reptilian hide. It’s no big surprise that the watchmakers at Urwerk decided on the moniker T-Rex to describe this creation.
“Each model is treated as one-of-a-kind,” says Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker and Urwerk’s co-founder. “It is decorated, beadblasted, micro-sandblasted, purified and then oxidised with a brush.”
Meanwhile, this piece’s method of telling time also draws from the past, utilising the Sumerian technique of reading time according to the daily journey of the sun. However, in a modernistic interpretation, the hours are reflected on a westwards passage with the satellite hours languorously sweeping across a minute rail. On its caseback of black PVD titanium, a lever enables the user to switch between automatic and manual-winding mode. Presented in a limited edition of only 22 pieces.
