URWERK – UR-112 AGGREGAT Back to Black Edition

 

URWERK – UR-Special Projects UR-112 “AGGREGAT” Back to Black Titanium Automatic Edition 2023

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URWERK takes time for a walk on the dark side

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If I were a hero? I'd be a James Bond-like badass.
If I were a colour? I would be the darkest night.
If I were a quality? Punctuality of course, it's the only rule I abide by.
If I were a car? I would be the supremely desirable Bugatti Atlantic Type 57 SC.

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I am the UR-112 Aggregat Back to Black. I am the most digital of all URWERK mechanical timepieces. I am a jumping hour, dragging minute and digital second watch.
I am all that and so much more...

“I’m a superb mechanism in a steel and titanium body. »

The UR-112 Aggregat Back to black comes in a steel and titanium body with a complex architecture. Let's start with its upper part. Its steel bonnet is grooved and openworked. It gives a glimpse of the richness of this gleaming speed machine. 

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This cover opens vertically to give access to the secondary power-reserve and digital seconds indications. Its central titanium body is satin-brushed, sandblasted and beadblasted, thereby forming a field of functional microdots. 

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The two blackened steel wings of the UR-112 Aggregat Back to black fit into this central body. Each zone, each space, each element has its own texture, its own finish, its own language.

“I was born amid the smell of petrol and polish.”

The UR-112 Aggregat Back to Black belongs to the Special Project line. This is a departure from the founding concept of URWERK's wandering-hour indication, on a whole new scale, with new volumes for the UR-122 Aggregat and its UR-13.01 caliber.  

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Martin Frei, co-founder of URWERK said: "The inspiration for the 112 line came straight from the USA. Felix and I were lucky enough to discover the impressive car collection of Mr Ralph Lauren. Amongst the rarest models was the Bugatti Atlantic. WOW! It was love at first sight. Its perfect lines, its spine running along its body, its Art Déco features. This Bugatti is a true wonder!  It was the muse that inspired my first drawings of the UR-112.”

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There are no cubes, no carousel with satellites, no 120-degree sector-type indication like on so many models that have marked the history of URWERK over the last 25 years. The UR-112 Aggregat Back to Black displays jumping hours and trailing minutes on prisms. Shifted to the front of the watch, they're visible in their large sapphire crystal housings. 

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As the hours jump on one side and the minutes advance in five-minute increments on the other, an additional trailing indicator shows the accurate minutes. 

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Felix Baumgartner, co-founder of URWERK and master watchmaker said: "Once again we've let our guts speak for us in making a spaceship, a UFO that is a technical challenge. This UR-112 is pure madness in terms of the mechanics and the finishes. The energy generated by the UR-112's central engine is being distributed in four directions along no less than 12 axes. It's actual mechanical lace. We will only be able to make a very limited number of them, but this is sheer, unadulterated watchmaking pleasure!”

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 “I am a watchmaking fantasy driven to the extreme. »

The central body of the case contains the driving and regulating components of the UR-13.01 caliber. A large barrel providing 48 hours of power reserve is coupled with an automatic-winding rotor. 

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Pressing the two pushers on the sides of the watch opens the cover and reveals the power-reserve indicator and the spectacular small seconds. The latter is composed of a skeletonized silicon disk attached to a red anodized aluminum bridge, a typical URWERK design feature.

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A transmission shaft stands out in the middle of this incredible mechanism. Measuring several centimeters in length, it's possibly the longest component in contemporary watchmaking. To guarantee its lightness and rigidity, it's made of titanium and ensures the coupling with the display module, located at the front of the shell. It establishes this link thanks to a new succession of gears that drive the hours and minutes prisms via two 90° bevel gears. 

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The black aluminum prisms featuring grooved sides are enhanced with Super-LumiNova and secured by planetary systems that ensure they rotate both on their axis and in space. 

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: UR-SATELLITE

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MOVEMENT
Caliber UR-13.01 automatic
Escapement Swiss lever-type
Jewels 66
Frequency 4 Hz; 28,800 vph
Power reserve 48 hours
Materials Aluminum hours and minutes satellite prisms; titanium transmission shaft, silicon seconds wheel
Surface finishing Circular-graining, sandblasting, Côtes de Genève, polished screw heads
INDICATIONS
Jumping digital hours and trailing digital minutes on satellite prisms;
digital seconds; power-reserve indicator
CASE
Dimensions Width 42 mm; length 51 mm; thickness 16 mm
Materials DLC treated titanium and steel
Glass Sapphire crystalWater resistance: 3 ATM (30 m - 3 bar)

Price   CHF 280,000 (Swiss francs / tax not included) 

 🔰 Limited Edition of ✅25 pieces

 
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Ms Yacine Sar
Telephone: +41 22 900 2027
Mobile : +41 79 834 46 65 

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CORUM – BUBBLE 47 Central Tourbillon by Label Noir Piece Unique

 

CORUM – BUBBLE 47 Central Tourbillon X Label Noir Titanium Automatic - Piece Unique 2022

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CORUM AND LABEL NOIR CREATE A UNIQUE BUBBLE

 The Corum Bubble 47 Central Tourbillon by Label Noir

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CORUM has teamed up with Label Noir in a new collaboration to manufacture a unique timepiece dedicated to the renowned Macau Master of Time Event. By partnering with Label Noir, the Swiss watchmaking company, located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, has given carte blanche to Label Noir’s creative team, which specializes in bespoke timepiece customization.  

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The Bubble collection, and more specifically the emblematic CORUM Bubble 47 Central Tourbillon model, has been enhanced with the most distinctive features of the Geneva-based customization brand: black, acid green, textured finishes, and grey and matte tones, in order to highlight its deeply contemporary essence.  

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The fruit of their collaboration is an unmistakably Corum watch loaded with signatures, symbols, and stories.  

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In the year 2000, CORUM introduced the Bubble, an oversized wristwatch with a domed sapphire crystal. A design so radical that the timepiece has become a must-have for the new millennium. It bridges the gap between two universes, watchmaking, and pop culture.  

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The Bubble Collection was Severin Wunderman’s rendition of his own vision of creativity. The entrepreneur had just acquired Corum when he launched the Bubble. At that time, he was inspired by a highly technical and experimental diving watch, able to withstand enormous pressure, which was topped with a thick glass dome.  

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Severin Wunderman took this inspiration and translated it into the iconic Bubble, a generous 47 mm diameter theater stage. The Bubble is now an arena for artistic experimentation, a lounge where Corum hosts its proms and invites other performers, graphic designers, and artists to collaborate, contributing their creativity and artistic talent to bring a new level of avant-garde designs to the brand.

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Label Noir has applied all its expertise in colors and finishes to emphasize, in its own way, how to read time and make the Bubble a monument of contemporary watchmaking. The idea sounds simple enough, however, the resulting effect is powerful and impressive. All the more so since the model chosen for this collaborative venture is a Corum milestone piece, an obvious creation, a purely technical piece of fine watchmaking, featuring an (almost) traditional complication: the Bubble Central Tourbillon.  

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An almost conventional complication, in fact, because this tourbillon, which features traditional architecture, has been freed from the periphery of the dial to its center. This sidestep turns the whole architecture of the movement and the display upside down: everything is reversed, from the mechanical show in the center which is amplified by the Bubble’s dome, to the display – no hands, just indicators – around the edges.   

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Several versions of this central tourbillon have already been produced in various materials, with the aim of anchoring this watchmaking ‘spacecraft’ into traditional haute horlogerie’s world while playing with opposites, such as steel and blue, gold and black.  

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Label Noir went for a different approach. Very graphic finishes, deceptively minimalist, because the play of nuances is complex, with anthracite and silvery hues, matte finishes, bracelet (matte textured black rubber), case (grade 5 titanium treated with black ADLC), bezel (grade 5 titanium coated with satin black ADLC), right down to the plate. 

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No longer an assembly of different parts, this watch is a whole: one continuous thought process with a bubble on top.  

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A few more dashes of steel enhance the dial pattern, numerals, and display discs, and refocus the eyes on the central body, the beating heart, the tourbillon.

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Finally, what must be read is highlighted with a few strokes of contrasting color: acid green, Label Noir’s signature, is added to the hour-minute indicators, the dual mark, and the strap stitching.

 In brief 

On the dial, only Corum x Label Noir appears. A minimalistic approach for a collaborative piece and a subtle work of nuances, like a picture, a revealing dip to grasp this watch’s genius and spirit: a Bubble with its mechanical heart, a sapphire dome, and a central tourbillon. And to emphasize the uniqueness of Corum Bubble Central Tourbillon, Label Noir was careful to unify the piece, the strap and the case, the case and the bezel, the bezel and the discs of the dial. With just a few indications outlined in green, Label Noir reminds us that it is still a watch and that its main duty is to tell time.  

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
 
🤝 COLLABORATIONS:   

 Collection:  BUBBLE 

Watch Name: BUBBLE 47  entral Tourbillon X Label Noir

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Ref - L406/04433 - 406.101.04/0601 SW02 - Titanium

MOVEMENT
Movement number: CO 406
Winding system: Automatic
Functions: Hour & Minute
Power reserve: 65 hours
Frequency: 4 Hz, 28'800 vph
Dimension: 13 1/4'''
Rubies: 38
DIAL
Colours:Black
Material: Brass
CASE
Shape: Round
Dimension: 47 mm
Thickness: 19.60 mm
Case material:
Titanium grade 5
Bezel material: Titanium grade 5 with black ADLC treatment  (Anamorphous Diamond-Like
Carbon)
Crown material: Titanium grade 5 with black ADLC treatment  (Anamorphous Diamond-Like
Carbon)
Crystal: Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment
Back type: Screwed in open back cover in titanium grade 5 with glare proof sapphire crystal
Water-resistance: 100 meters / 10 ATM
HANDS
Hour and minute: Green lacquer
• Black superluminova
BRACELET
Material:
Synthetic, rubber lining
Colours: Black with fluorescent green stitchings
Interhorn/Buckle: 24/20 mm
Buckle type: Tongue buckle
Buckle material: Stainless steel 

 

Recommended Retail Price: CHF 95’000.-  Unique piece ⚠️- Sold Out

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