New: Urwerk UR-10 Spacemeter Blue Final Edition

Urwerk releases the final version of their extraordinary UR-10 Spacemaster, now with a blue dial in the same titanium/steel case and bracelet.

Press release information with commentary in italics.

New: Urwerk UR-10 Spacemeter Blue Final Edition

The Urwerk UR-10 Spacemeter Blue Final Edition retails at CHF 70,000 before taxes / SGD 120,000 inclusive of GST. Limited Edition of 25 pieces.

Commentary

First released in 2025 as SpaceMaster, the UR-10 is part of Urwerk’s Special Projects. It is also the first Urwerk to have conventional hands for the hours and minutes indications over a standard dial. No satellites. No rotating cubes. No partially hidden dials. But you would be remiss if you thought the UR-10 is conventional in any sense. It is not.

Under the cloak of the standard time display layout on the dial, are additional indicators – at 2 o’clock is a counter displaying the Earth’s daily rotation measured at the equator per 10km, at 4 o’clock is another counter showing the Earth’s daily orbit around the Sun per 1000 km, and at 9 o’clock is a double concentric counter displaying the Earth’s rotation and solar revolution.

And on the back, a peripheral hand traces the hours on a 24 hour scale.

What is new with this release compared to the launch release in 2025? The dial colour. It is now the final edition, and closing the chapter, the UR-10 Spacemeter Blue now sports a blue dial in three different shades from dark blue to a mid-tone to a bright, almost luminescent blue on the sub-dial at 9 o’clock.

The new model is called the Spacemeter, while the original 2025 release was named the SpaceMaster. Both are UR-10. The word Spacemeter is engraved on the case side, but only UR-10 appears on the dial and on the case back.

Everything else remains the same. The case is a two piece affair of sandblasted titanium and a sandblasted steel back. It measures the same 44.4mm in width and 44mm in height with 7.13mm at the highest point, excluding the bubble shaped crystal. No change to the caliber UR-10/01 movement as well. The retail pricing also remains unchanged.

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Every idea harbours its own conclusion. With the UR-10 SpaceMeter Blue issued in a 25-piece final edition, URWERK is not merely closing a chapter, but rather sealing the culmination of a horological exploration in which time ceases to be measured and instead merges with space.

The UR-10 by URWERK has never been a watch in the conventional sense of the term. It is an instrument of cosmic awareness. A mechanical object reminding us that our Earth does not merely set the rhythm of our existence but also lives at its own pace: rotating on its axis, orbiting the Sun and hurtling through the cosmos. The UR-10 sets out to reveal its every quiver, linking time to the invisible movement sustaining all human existence. It brings to the wearer’s wrist not the time of the world, but the world itself in its actual motion. Second by second. Kilometre by kilometre.

A ROUND DIAL REFLECTING URWERK’S THINKING 

The UR-10 SpaceMeter occupies a unique place in URWERK’s history. At first glance, its round dial endows it with an almost classic appearance – and that is precisely the essence of its subversive nature. The shape offers momentary reassurance, while the function immediately draws the gaze elsewhere. For the UR-10 is all about contrasts: it is simultaneously the least and the most resolutely URWERK watch of all the collections. The most bewildering in appearance. The most faithful at its core.

With its main dial enhanced by three subdials, the UR-10 is a machine for measuring the distances our planet travels through space-time. 

At 2 o’clock – the EARTH counter measures every 10 km travelled by the Earth in its daily rotation, graduated in 500 m increments.

At 4 o’clock – the SUN counter records every 1,000 km travelled by the Earth in its solar orbit in 20 km increments.

At 9 o’clock – the ORBIT counter combines the two trajectories, translating 1,000 km of Earth’s rotation and 64,000 km of solar revolution onto two synchronised scales.

The UR-10 does not only indicate the hours and minutes; it articulates a vision, transforming the watch into a system for representing Earth’s motion. Reading the time thus becomes almost secondary. The wearer of the UR-10 is no longer merely faced with a succession of moments and is instead placed within a larger overall movement. The watch no longer simply says “It’s 10 o’clock”, but rather “Here’s where you are within the grand mechanism of the world.”

According to URWERK’s co-founder and artistic director Martin Frei: “Time is not something we observe. It is something we inhabit. With the UR-10, we wanted to broaden the perspective, to remind us that we live aboard a celestial body in constant motion. This final blue edition seemed the most fitting to us, because it naturally places this timepiece in its true setting: space.”

THE EARTH ON THE CASEBACK

On the reverse side of the watch, a peripheral hand traces the hours along a 24-hour scale, evoking the Earth’s complete rotation. The caseback is engraved with pictograms representing “Rotation” (Earth) and “Revolution” (Sun): Rotation is read clockwise, whilst Revolution is interpreted counter-clockwise. 

The caseback of the UR-10 SpaceMeter thus becomes a portable cosmography on a 24-hour scale. These three indications – Hours, Rotation and Revolution – invite a reading as poetic as it is rigorous. Three fundamental units. Three physical realities translated into watchmaking mechanics.

Another horological development relating to the UR-10 is the addition of a Double Flow Turbine, an evolution of URWERK’s one-way self-winding system. This patented turbine comprises two stacked propellers which rotate in opposite directions. When a self-winding mechanism isn’t spinning in the winding direction, the rotor’s high speed exerts significant constraints on the system. The double turbine creates air flow between the two sets of blades, which slows them down and preserves the mechanism. These blades also create a hypnotic spectacle.

A REINTERPRETED HERITAGE

The UR-10 draws inspiration from the masters of the past, and from a more intimate legacy, that of Felix Baumgartner’s father, Gérard, a restorer of antique clocks who discovered and refurbished a mysterious Gustave Sandoz clock featuring three astronomical dials. The soul of the UR-10 is derived from this legendary clock passed down from father to son.

As always at URWERK, the mechanics are never decorative, instead serving an idea and rendering tangible that which would otherwise remain purely abstract.

THE END AND THE BEGINNING OF A LEGEND.

The UR-10 SpaceMeter Blue is thus the final edition, the natural culmination of an idea pushed to its maximum density, where time is no longer just measured but unfolds in space. This model rounds off the “10” collection – and at URWERK, when a creation leaves production, it does not disappear, instead directly entering the Maison’s “The Legends” archive collection.

Urwerk UR-10 Spacemeter Blue Final Edition Specifications