Awesome Urwerk

This 5.5-foot-tall glass clock from Urwerk and Nixie expert Dalibor Farny contains eight large Nixie tubes and a total of 1445 parts. In addition to displaying the time and date, it can show how many kilometers the Earth has revolved around the Sun on a given day or year-to-date. Just 33 clocks will be produced, with a retail price of 55,000 CHF (~ USD 60,700).

Watchmaker Urwerk teamed up with engraver Johnny ‘King Nerd’ Dowell to create this extremely limited-edition timepiece that features an intricate skull design on back, with filigree that wraps onto the front of the slick UR-T8, with its sweet rotating digit modules.

Urwerk’s UR-105 CT and UR-105 TA mechanical watches have a one-of-a-kind display. Four satellites carry the hour numbers, with the current hour displayed at the bottom alongside the minutes. The back shows the dual turbines that regulate its automatic winding.

Urwerk puts an unusually intricate mechanical movement in this modern take on the pocket watch, offering measurements in intervals from 1 second to 1000 years. Limited to just 8 pieces.

Urwerk’s 103 Tarantula gets a fitting Mexican Fireleg edition for its 7th and final year; limited to 60 pieces, the watch features orange luminescent markers on its signature satellites.

Never has obtuse looked so good: Urwerk’s King Cobra UR-CC1 goes horizontal with its watch face, made possible with vertical triple cams, retrograde cylinders and rotating disks.

Urwerk’s UR103T watch is a choreographed ballet; a bronze/beryllium Geneva cross carries four aluminum satellites, each performing a four-beat 480 degree pirouette to signify minutes.

Today’s dose of watch porn: Urwerk’s UR103 Hexagon gets six-sided satellites, a black alligator leather strap and a plasma vapor deposited platinum case. Only ten will be made.

The Urwerk UR-202 has telescopic minute hands, hours satellites and twin turbines. The swanky video (above) shows this in detail, and yet we still feel clueless… all we know is, we want one. Bad.