URWERK UR-100V Stardust

The UR-100V Snow Flake, stars in your eyes.

It shines brightly under the beam of light. Take it in the palm of your hand, slowly rotate it, look for its best profile. And enjoy. This UR-100V Stardust will put glitter in your eyes. A watchmaker’s promise.

This UR-100V will speak to you of stars and distant constellations, of nascent beauty and flamboyance, of sparkling lightning and transparent reflections. “The universe as a whole is made up of stellar particles, making their presence unavoidable in all the forms of matter that surround us. Whether in their raw or transformed state, from carbon to cut diamonds, from iron mineral to steel alloy, this stardust is omnipresent. It’s crazy to think that we, as human beings, are also made of this celestial substance. So the nickname Stardust, logically associated with the setting of this UR-100V, also extends to the watch itself and its future owner”, says Martin Frei, URWERK’s artistic director and co-founder.
This UR-100V is set with 400 diamonds (VVS1 clarity; D color). Almost 1.90 carats of pure carbon. The snow-setting technique was chosen here: “We wanted a setting reminiscent of the celestial vault. Nothing uniform, more like ordered chaos. It wasn’t so much the size of the stones that was important to us, but their arrangement, this almost random pattern,” says Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker and co-founder of URWERK.

Four hundred diamonds, carefully selected from 8 different formats, line the UR-100V Stardust case. Only the edges of the watch have been left bare. Run your finger over this mosaic of diamonds. The structure is soft to the touch, smooth and fluid. However, creating this setting was quite a challenge due to the nature of the steel used here. Harder and less malleable than gold, steel required a more complex and meticulous jewellery-making process. Beneath the UR-100V Stardust’s crystal globe, the minute track – located on the upper part of the track – is studded with 36 diamonds, with a further 24 adorning the watch’s crown. The steel pin buckle is enhanced by two rows of 11 diamonds each.

In addition to its aesthetics and its wandering hour movement, the UR-100V Stardust is spatial in nature. Like all watches in the 100 collection, it features two notches along its satellite carrier. The first is a kilometer counter representing the distance traveled by the Earth on its own axis in 20 minutes, or 555 km. The second is a kilometer counter showing the distance traveled by the Earth around the sun in the same time, i.e. 35,740 km. The UR-100V Stardust thus bears witness to the Earth’s journey through the void of space, crossing millions of suns and reflecting their light.