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SPACETIME BLADE

"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

About

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.

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Insights

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.

Specifications

Indications

Time Indications

Hour; minutes; seconds; 1/10 and 1/100 of a seconds ; date

Spatial Indications

Earth’s rotation and revolution expressed in Km
Components

Per bulb

88 pieces

In total

1445 pieces
Dimensions

Height

170cm

Weight

20 Kg
Materials

Lost Wax casting

Dark patina on bronze

SPACETIME BLADE

Indications

Components

Dimensions

Materials

SpaceTime Blade Dark Patina