This UR-100V is set with 400 diamonds (VVS1, Color D) totalling almost 1.90 carats of pure carbon.
The technique chosen here is that of snow-setting: “We wanted a setting reminiscent of the starry
heavens, with nothing at all uniform, more like ordered chaos. It wasn’t so much the size of the
stones that was important to us as their arrangement, this almost random design”, says Felix
Baumgartner, master watchmaker and co-founder of URWERK.
In addition to its aesthetics and its wandering hour movement, the UR-100V Stardust is spatial by
nature. Like all watches in the 100 collection, it features two recesses on the flanks of its satellite
carrier. The first is a kilometre counter representing the distance travelled by the Earth on its own
axis in 20 minutes, i.e. 555 km. The second is another kilometre counter showing the distance
travelled by the Earth around the Sun during the same period, i.e. 35,740 km. In this way, the UR100V Stardust bears witness to the Earth’s journey across the void of space, passing millions of
suns and reflecting their light.