The Final Edition of the Urwerk UR-10 SpaceMeter Blue

Urwerk, the indie brand founded by Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner in 1997, is renowned for its futuristic, aerodynamic vessels with kinetic satellite hour displays.  In 2025, Urwerk released the UR-10 SpaceMeter, a watch that initially stumped fans with its round dial and conventional hour and minute hands. However, closer inspection revealed Urwerk’s fascination with time and space was alive and kicking. Marking the final chapter in its short life, the new UR-10 SpaceMeter returns as a 25-piece edition highlighted with blue tonalities.

Designed as an “instrument of cosmic awareness” and inspired by an antique clock with astronomical indications restored by Baumgartner’s father, the UR-10 SpaceMeter’s more conventional personality is offset by the complexity lurking in the three sub-dials. Alongside the canonical representation of the hours and minutes with central syringe-style hands, the three counters portray the motions of our planet as it rotates on its axis and orbits the Sun.

As its name indicates, the SpaceMeter measures the motions of Earth in metres. The Earth counter at 2 o’clock measures every 10 km travelled by the Earth in its daily rotation in increments of 500 metres; the Sun counter at 4 o’clock records every 1,000 km travelled by the Earth in its solar orbit in 20 km increments; while the Orbit counter at 9 o’clock combines the two trajectories on two synchronised scales.

The octagonal sandblasted titanium case, reminiscent of the UR-100 family, features the crown at noon. It has a diameter of 45.4mm, a length of 44mm and a slim profile of 7.13mm, excluding the crystals. Fittingly for a watch that tracks the motions of the Blue Planet, the final edition has a blue domed dial, decorated with a circular satin-brushed finish, also featured inside the bull’s eye Orbit counter with contrasting white and light blue rings. The distance indications at 2 and 4 o’clock are slightly recessed and sandblasted, and all three counters share open-tipped luminescent hands.

Turning the watch over reveals the large blue central rotor with spokes encircled by the peripheral 24-hour scale tracking the Earth’s complete rotation, indicated via an arrow-tipped hand. Beneath the rotor’s blades, you get a glimpse of the movement developed with Vaucher Manufacture. Fitted above the automatic double-barrel base delivering a 43-hour power reserve is Urwerk’s complication module with its patented Dual Flow Turbines, a system of two stacked propellers rotating in opposite directions to slow down the blades and preserve the mechanism.

Paired with a single-link sandblasted titanium bracelet with a folding clasp, this final edition of 25 pieces retails for CHF 70,000 (excl. tax).

More information at Urwerk.com.