Here’s an Up-Close Look at Urwerk’s New UR-150 Titan Scorpion Watch

Urwerk’s co-founder Felix Baumgartner says that “The Scorpion is a nasty beast.” But if you look more closely at the watch, you’ll see two gentle aspects at the forefront of this futuristic horological experience: the nearly seamless curvaceous case and the remarkably precise machine inside. In fact, the interplay of the form-factor and the mechanical wonderment inside is the main story of this watch, which we have done our very best to capture in the intimate, original photographs below.

We have looked at a number of Urwerk watches over the years, from my recent hands-on review of the Star-Trek-themed UR-120 to Oren Hartov‘s write up of the UR-100 with a planetarium, to Victoria Gomelsky‘s fascinating breakdown of the Urwerk Sr-71 in conjunction with lead designer Martin Frei. It’s an interesting relationship we have to Urwerk, as none of us writers lean in this odd-ball, retro-futuristic direction personally, and yet we are all drawn to Urwerk’s watches for the high craft and especially to its founders for their searing imagination and brilliantly executed vision. I don’t really listen to Kraftwerk, but I would count that robotic Kraut-Rock music among the most important of the 20th century. Urwerk is just like that: iconic, important, visionary, and—if you consider these watches as cultural expressions—critical of the status-quo.

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Macro photography is a great way to get to know a watch, so we took a different angle (so to speak) when considering the UR-150 Titan Scorpion. Our lens was drawn to details that one might miss when taking in the whole watch at arm’s distance. the movement, of course, is central to the experience, but consider the signed bolt head at the lower right corner of the case, or the wonderful grooves carved into the minute-track, which leave the numbers flush and legible. Around the back, the twin-turbine auto-winding rotor puts on a hell of a show.

The new titanium finish with lime-green accents brings a new look to the UR-150, revealing more, we think, than the original Dark (black and red) version did—largely because shadows show up against the gray finish rather than disappearing into the black finish. With that added contrast, the retrograde star-wheel mechanism steals the show, and it thoroughly justifies the six-figure price of this truly unique bit of high horology. We encourage you to linger on the details of the photos below, because it is there that this watch shows its prowess.

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