Some of you might remember that Urwerk’s EMC Time Hunter watch featured a fold-away winding crank on its side, that would charge a super capacitor, allowing you to monitor the accuracy of your timepiece with an interesting precision monitoring function.
But the innovative Swiss watchmaker has decided to take this design even further, with the TimeHunter X-Ray, a new version of the UMC watch, meant to shock and awe every single one of us with a skeletonized dial, that gives us a closer look at the fascinating mechanics of this besopke creation.
The Urwerk EMC TimeHunter had the difficult task of introducing electronic elements to a classically mechanical movement, thus aggravating and impressing purists at the same time – which is quite difficult to do, if you ask us, and this new watch is the next best thing.
The Urwerk EMC TimeHunter X-Ray is truly special, considering that on its back you’ll find an adjustment screw connected to the fast/slow index on the balance, which gives the next owners of this beauty the same power as only trained watchmakers have.
The Calibre UR-EMC makes everything tick in this watch, a manual-winding movement designed and manufactured in-house by Urwerk, packing two stacked mainspring barrels and an 80-hour power reserve.
The brushed, shot-peened, and PVD-coated grade 5 titanium case makes this watch stand out from any crowd and when we tell you that Urwerk will produce this gorgeous timepiece in only 15 pieces, each of them priced CHF 125,000, you’ll understand how exclusive this watch will be.
