Urwerk founders Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner have unveiled the TimeHunter X-Ray, a limited-edition 15-watch creation. This timepiece, housed in titanium with black steel PVD case and measuring 43mm x 51mm x 15.8mm, features double sapphire crystals and is water-resistant to 30 meters. Powered by the Calibre UR-EMC, a Swiss-designed and manufactured instrument, it boasts a 28,800 vph optical reader balance wheel, 80 hours of power reserve, and a lever escapement.
“We have perfected one of the most reliable way of regulating a 100% mechanical watch by making mechanics intelligent,” explains watchmaker Felix Baumgartner, co-founder of URWERK. The intelligence comes from the interactive dialogue that links the watch to its owner. “In the EMC TimeHunter we have conceived and developed a purposefully accurate movement with an unusual balance-wheel and twin mainspring barrels for a constant power output,” he adds. “We then grafted on to this mechanism an electric monitor that tells the owner how his watch is performing. With this information, he can effectively control his EMC, adjusting it to the second. Our EMC TimeHunter relies on the mechanical movement that we have designed and built in our workshops; the function of the electronic module is to challenge its performance in real time and provide the most accurate information possible.”
“Simply by pressing a button you get accurate and reliable information on the timekeeping status of your EMC TimeHunter, hitherto only available from a professional,” Felix Baumgartner explains. “Thanks to this system, you can safely interact with one of the most exhilarating mechanisms invented by man — the mechanical watch.”
The extremely limited edition Urwerk Time Hunter X-Ray is priced at 125,000 CHF (approx. $128,750USD). For more info, visit Urwerk’s website.
