URWERK UR-100V Time Culture Collection Explores the History of Keeping time
The first watch of the selection is engraved with the Aztec calendar of the 15th millennium.
URWERK is exploring the tradition and ideas of keeping time in all eras with a new collection based on its 100V.
The very first watch of the UR-100V Some Culture series is etched with the "Sun Stone" design, known as "one of the most representational works of Aztec art", dating back to 1479, right now in the collection City of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology.
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The design describes the Aztec calendar, using the third circle representing the actual 20 days of the 30 days and the fourth circle symbolizing the 260 days of the entire year.
"This thread is about historical past, culture, our place underneath the stars, research and findings made around the world using the exact same sky above us like a source of knowledge. I'm usually fascinated, " said URWERK co-founder Martin Frei These types of unique observations, made a large number of kilometers away, gave delivery to a universal language, the particular language of time. "So we have been actually seen as a journey via time and space. For this type of journey, the UR-100V, coupled with indications in minutes and kms, proved to be the ideal vehicle. inch
Engraving is carried out utilizing milling cutters with a suggestion of just 0. 05mm, while the ridges of the routine are satin-brushed and the bands are micro-blasted to accentuate typically the engraved relief.
Three years back, Singapore-based watch journalist Verso Jia Xian, aka SJX, approached URWERK with the concept for the collection.
The 41mm stainless steel UR-100V Time and Tradition I is a limited version.
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