Urwerk UR-100V P.02, A Space Shuttle Mission Timer for the Wrist, Joins Collective Horology Portfolio Collection
Collective Horology, the California-based, membership-driven watch community, could hardly have chosen a better day to announce its newest bespoke timepiece, in collaboration with the iconoclastic indie watchmaker Urwerk and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. This morning’s successful launch of Blue Origin, the civilian-crewed rocket pioneered by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, provided the perfect lead-in to the unveiling of the Urwerk UR-100V P.02, whose unusual dial display is designed to track typical launch and landing sequences for the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Intended as “a tribute to the experience of flying the space shuttle,” the watch is based on an existing Urwerk model, the UR-100V, which tracks the Earth’s orbital and rotational distance on dual 20-minute scales in apertures on the upper left and upper right. On the new model, which displays the hours on orbiting satellites in classic Urwerk fashion and the minutes on red arrow-tipped pointers along a 60-minute scale, the concept of those side-mounted scales is different. The left aperture features three distinctly colored sectors tracking the phases of the shuttle’s launch: green for the final checks on the ground before takeoff, blue for the ignition of the boosters, and red for reaching orbital altitude. On the right is the “landing” aperture scale, with four colored zones: black for the 60-minute landing countdown, red for re-entry into the upper atmosphere...
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