UR-1001 ZEIT DEVICE

HISTORICAL PIECES
UR-1001
“Since we founded URWERK, we have developed new methods of displaying time. However, we were always constrained by the size of the wristwatch. With Zeit Device we could allow ourselves carte blanche and created a larger playground for our imaginations… and then filled it with all of our complications and indications.”

FELIX BAUMGARTNER

The UR-1001 is a grand über complication both measuring and quantifying the era in its entirety, from a solitary second to astronomical millennia. Exuding force from a case seemingly carved from a block of solid metal, the UR-1001 marks the passage of time in seconds, minutes, hours, day/night, date, month, years, 100 years and all of the way to a monumental 1,000 years.

DAY/NIGHT INDICATOR
The Day/Night indicator is a rotating disk in dark Super-LumiNova® for the night, satin finish for the day and a striped mix for dusk/dawn.

REVOLVING SATELLITE CALENDAR
The Revolving Satellite Calendar is an original annual calendar complication in the same family as the hour satellite complication. Months and date replace hours and retrograde minutes. 

POWER RESERVE INDICATOR
39h power reserve.

HOUR SATELLITE COMPLICATION AND RETROGRADE MINUTE HAND
The Hour Satellite Complication of the Zeit Device is a ‘flying’ design in that there is no top bridge supporting the carrousel. The retrograde minute hand is fixed to a sprung ring around the circumference of the satellite complication. 

1000-YEAR INDICATOR (BACK)
When the hand reaches the 100-year mark, the small pointer at the bottom of the 1000-year indicator on the left takes a small 100-year step upwards on its imperceptibly slow, but deliberate journey to a new millennium.

Chain / Strap UR-1001: Hand-made, heat-blackened steel links featuring bespoke URWERK clasp with carbineer closure / UR-1001Titan: Black leather strap created based on an original design by URWERK
Dimensions 106mm x 62mm x 23mm
Glasses Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Water resistance Pressure tested to 3 ATM
Calibre UR-10.01 self-winding
Jewels 51
Escapement Swiss lever
Balance Monometallic
Frequency 28,800v/h, 4Hz
Balance spring Flat
Power Single mainspring barrel
Power reserve 39 hours
Winding system Unidirectional winding rotor
Materials Baseplate in ARCAP
Surface finishes Circular-grained, Geneva waves and rhodium-plated baseplate, chamfered and polished screw heads
Indications Revolving satellite complication with wandering hours, retrograde minutes, revolving satellite calendar with months and dates, day/night indicator, power-reserve indicator, running seconds
On the back “Oil change” indicator (5 years), running-time indicator for 100 year, linear running-time indicator for 1,000 years / Super-LumiNova® on markers

Controls Three-position winding crown