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SPACETIME BLADE

URWERK invites you to a new kind of watchmaking experience that involves coming face to face with a creation transcending traditional notions of time and space and featuring an unparalleled system. There is no satellite complication here, no wandering hours, no planetary gears, no case and no dial. This instrument redefines time as only URWERK dares to do.

SpaceTime Blade

About

An intergalactic
horological creation

Insights

SpaceTime Blade

Each glass tube is a Nixie bulb with its anodes arranged in a metal grid and its cathodes forming numerals.

For each unit displayed from 0 to 9, a 0.1 mm-thick steel cathode is designed. Each bulb is composed of 88 parts.

When the current is switched on, a warm orange glow features hundredths of a second ticking away. The display can change a stunning 500 times per second.

Variations

SPACETIME BLADE

Time Indications
Hour; minutes; seconds; 1/10 and 1/100 of a seconds ; date
Spatial Indications
Earth’s rotation and revolution expressed in Km
Per bulb
88 pieces
In total
1445 pieces
Height
170cm
Weight
20 Kg
Lost Wax casting
Dark patina on bronze

Meticulous
craftmanship

"Scientific instruments such as telescopes and microscopes, as well as clock, were traditionally made in bronze. The SpaceTime Blade draws its inspiration from such instruments, while incorporating aesthetic codes from the world of science-fiction."

Martin Frei