Urwerk

UR-103 Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei showed Urwerk's first watches at Baselworld in 1997, but the UR-103 of 2003 is where the brand's look settled: a sculpted case with three-dimensional, cone-shaped satellites carrying the hour around a minute scale instead of hands. It took six hard years to reach, and Urwerk ended the 103 collection in 2010, so it now marks a finished chapter. Wandering-hours displays are an old idea; Urwerk's contribution was turning one into sculpture and proving that a tiny workshop could sell a watch that looked like science fiction.