URWERK UR-100V TIME AND CULTURE II talks about the brand’s Mesopotamian inspirations
The brand new Urwerk watch pays respect to the Sumerians of the historic Mesopotamian civilization of Your
Urwerk might have been in the watchmaking industry for over 25 years, but its title was inspired by the Mesopotamian city of Ur in 3800 BC. The inhabitants associated with Ur, known as the Sumerians, were the first to determine a unit of time - sixty representing seconds and moments. In addition , " Ur" within German means " beginning" or " origin", whilst " werk" means development, work and innovation.
Now, inspired through all of these aspects, Urwerk roll-outs the UR-100V Time and Tradition II, which features complex details of the horological historical past associated with the city of Ur. This is actually the second version in the collection, following last year’s UR-100V Time and Culture I, a wrist watch inspired by 15th-century Mesoamerica and featuring the “sun stone. ”
Measuring 41mm wide as well as 49. 7mm long, the brand new steel-titanium model draws numerous design cues from the Mesopotamian era - the glowing blue refers to lapis lazuli, the stone associated with Innana, the actual goddess of love, war and also fertility, Inscribed between the lugs is Nanna, the main our god of the city of Ur, the particular moon god. Beneath the sky-blue crystal are several round contaminants and a sandblasted design influenced by the Mesopotamian era as well as its gods, including the sun the almighty Utu, this time with a four-corner design representing the 4 cardinal points. (The sunlight is particularly relevant to the UR-100 series because the watch in order to its right shows typically the Earth's orbit around the sun, that is 35, 742 kilometers each and every 20 minutes.
Additionally , there are Super-LumiNova® colored aluminum satellite hours designed on a beryllium bronze Geneva cross, with a minute monitor at the base displaying any reading from 0 to be able to 60 minutes, once 60 minutes is actually reached the minute hand goes away and reappears as a distance counter. Inscribed on the left side tend to be 477. 29 kilometers, which can be the distance traveled by every single resident of Ur. The actual self-winding UR 12. 02 movement mounted on the ti caseback is controlled with a Windfänger air screw, is better than at 4 Hz and it has a 48-hour power reserve. Associated with a pin-buckle Baltimore band, this watch is finished.