For independent watchmaker Urwerk, innovative time-telling and bold dial design are nothing new. The brand’s latest creation, the Urwerk UR-10 SpaceMeter, might appear at first glance to be a “standard” watch, with its round dial, central hands, and three sub-dials, but it offers far more than one would expect from a modern timepiece.

Part of Urwerk’s Special Projects line, the three sub-dials aren’t for chronograph or calendar functions. Staying true to its SpaceMeter name, the watch instead measures the distances the Earth travels through space. At 2 o’clock, the EARTH counter tracks every 10 km of the planet’s daily rotation, in 500 m increments. The SUN counter at 4 o’clock advances in 20 km steps, recording each 1,000 km of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. At 9 o’clock, the ORBIT counter combines both trajectories, marking every 1,000 km of rotation and 64,000 km of solar orbit on two synchronised scales.

Flip the watch over, and the caseback reveals another functional display rather than decorative engraving: dual indicators for rotation and revolution, each read against a 24-hour scale, with clockwise for rotation, anticlockwise for revolution.

The 45.4 mm sandblasted titanium upper case carries Urwerk’s signature aesthetic, while the combined thickness with the sandblasted steel caseback is just 7.13 mm. Inside, the UR-10.01 self-winding movement, developed with Vaucher Manufacture, features ultra-light skeletonised LIGA wheels weighing only 0.009 grams, delivering a 43-hour power reserve.

The Urwerk UR-10 SpaceMeter is offered in black or grey PVD dial options, with each version limited to just 25 pieces.