UR-100 / UR-100V SpaceTime

The URWERK UR-100 SpaceTime is the watch that put URWERK on a lot of wrists that had never worn an independent before. It landed in 2019 at CHF 48,000, a 41mm satellite-hours machine that reads time the way URWERK always has, then does something no other watch does: it shows you how far you have moved through space while you were reading it. When the minute pointer finishes its arc and disappears at the bottom of the dial, it reappears on two curved scales. One counts off 555.55 km, the distance a point on Earth's equator travels by rotation every 20 minutes. The other runs to 35,740 km, the distance Earth covers orbiting the Sun in that same 20 minutes. We sit on 47th Street and we see a lot of complicated watches cross the counter. The UR-100 is one of the few that makes a first-time buyer stop talking. It is compact for an URWERK, wearable in a way the UR-110 and UR-210 never were, and it opened the brand up to collectors who wanted the satellite-hours signature without a slab of metal the size of a garage-door remote on the wrist. If you are buying your first URWERK or selling one you have owned since launch, this is the reference to understand cold.