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Urwerk

Founded in 1997, Urwerk began life at the instigation of the watch-maker Félix Baumgartner and the designer Martin Frei. The brand offers extremely high-quality watches with a futuristic style. They completely change the way we read the time. The name Urwerk comes from Ur, a city of ancient Mesopotamia where the division of time we still use today originated and from Werk which comes from German and means the work or factory.

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1997

Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner found Urwerk.

2003

Launch of the UR-103 collection, extremely technical, highly complicated and aesthetically original time-pieces.

2008

Introduction of the first piece from the UR 200 collection: the hours are shown on 3 pivoting platforms.

2013

Urwerk unveils the EMC - Electro Mechanical Control - its first watch to integrate a calibre which is totally developed and assembled in-house.