Succeeding the Urwerk 103, the 110 tells the time on rotating cubes for the hours and a pointer indicating the minutes.
Each cube is fixed to a minute hand that travels the 60 minute arc on the right. There are three of these satellites, each fixed to a central carousel, that thanks to planetary gearing turns each of the cubes as the carousel rotates. If you think about the three armed central platform and its motion you will realise how this is evolved from the 103.
The dial also features a day/night indicator, service “oil change” display and a constant seconds hand at what is traditionally nine o’clock.
The 110 also has a useful crown lever that makes operating the crown quite handy.
Like the Urwerk 202, this is an automatic watch with turbine winding visible from the back.
This is a thick watch at 16 mm high, but for some reason it seems slimmer than other Urwerk watches, probably because it is wider at 47 by 51 mm with plenty of open space under the crystal.
The case is titanium with a front plate of steel. One should expect further variants of this watch in the near future.
- SJX
This message has been edited by SJX on 2011-01-30 09:28:52