Our Take

We love how Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei, Urwerk co-founders, leverage their extraordinary partnership to create extraordinary timepieces. And we’re lucky to have been able to handle many of the duo’s creations over the years. Some of them include a recent slew of UR-105 timepieces including the TTH Tantalum, the “Bronze Maverick,” and this exceptional UR-105 CT Black.

Released at SIHH 2018, there’s something spectacular about a PVD’d Urwerk timepiece. It brings the whole futuristic aesthetic to another level with its blacked-out, matte surfaces. Add on the brand’s trademark satellite hour time indicator with Super-LumiNova® and all the things collectors love about the brand fall perfectly into place.

The UR-105 CT with PVD case wears extremely comfortably for a timepiece with heft (39.5mm width x 53mm length x 17.8mm height). And it bears one of Urwerk’s emblems, caliber UR 5.03’s convertible winding system. Powered by two turbines to regulate the movement’s automatic winding system, a lever on the caseback allows you to deactivate the automatic rotors, converting the timepiece into a manual wind watch.

Overall, this is a hell of a timepiece in the UR-105 series. Like all of its siblings, this timepiece showcases the creativity and mechanical prowess of two of the living legends in independent watchmaking.

The Details

Urwerk UR-105 TTH "Tantalum Hull

Case: 39.5mm width x 53mm length x 17.8mm height - "soap bar" case black in titanium and PVD coated steel protective cover - sapphire crystal - crown at 12 o'clock - caseback with sapphire apertures and automatic winding position lever - water-resistant to 30m

Calibre: UR 5.03 with the selfwinding system governed by twin turbines

Materials: Satellite hours turning on Geneva crosses in beryllium bronze; openworked aluminium carousel; openworked digital seconds; carousel and triple baseplates in ARCAP

Finishes: Circular graining, sanding, brushing; Chamfered screw heads; Hours and minutes painted in SuperLuminova

Power Reserve: 48 Hours