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URWERK Gives The One-Off UR-1001 Amadeus An Engraved Titanium Case

The monumental pocket watch pairs satellite timekeeping and millennium counters with a titanium case laser rough-cut before being finished by hand.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 27 August 2026

• The one-off UR-1001 Amadeus places URWERK's multi-scale pocket-watch mechanism inside a titanium case finished by engraver Florian Güllert after a laser rough-cut.
• Its front maps seconds through an annual calendar, while the back carries five-year service, century and millennium counters for elapsed running time.
• URWERK has made Amadeus as a unique piece; the brand lists no public price and directs prospective owners to enquire.

URWERK has returned to the most extravagant end of portable timekeeping with the UR-1001 Amadeus, a one-off pocket watch whose titanium case has been laser rough-cut before being finished by hand. The piece was announced in Geneva on 25 August 2026. It takes the already uncommon UR-1001 platform and wraps it in a dense field of scrollwork cut by German engraver Florian Güllert. Front and rear sapphire crystals preserve its two-sided display, and the completed case remains rated to 3 ATM.

The name is a reference to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, though there is no musical mechanism hidden inside. Instead, the connection comes through the ornamental treatment. URWERK says Güllert spent roughly 500 hours, or about three months, designing and executing the engraving across the case. That work gives a highly technical object the character of an old silver pocket watch, without disguising its contemporary proportions or mechanisms.

A pocket watch built on several scales

The front of the UR-1001 presents more information than its satellite display first suggests. Rotating hour satellites pass along a retrograde minute scale, while separate indications show running seconds, day and night, the month, the date and remaining power reserve. The annual calendar is programmed around 28, 30 and 31-day months, reducing the number of manual corrections required through the year.

Its reverse shifts the time horizon from minutes and months to years and centuries. A five-year service indicator tracks the interval between oil changes. Beside it sit a 100-year counter and a 1,000-year counter, both intended to record the accumulated running time of the mechanism over generations. The idea is unusually literal: Amadeus does not merely display the time of day, but carries records of its own working life.

The underlying calibre is the automatic UR-10.01. Its unidirectional rotor winds a single mainspring for a stated 39-hour power reserve. The movement runs at 28,800 vibrations per hour, or 4 Hz, and uses a Swiss lever escapement, a monometallic balance and a flat balance spring. URWERK specifies 51 jewels, with mainplates and bridges made from ARCAP and titanium screws used throughout.

Engraving a titanium case

Engraving titanium is central to the story, rather than an applied finishing note. Güllert had to carry the pattern across the broad front, the back and the case edges while accommodating the openings, controls and sapphire windows demanded by the mechanism. The result remains recognisably URWERK: the case is asymmetrical, mechanically exposed and substantial at 106mm long, 62mm wide and 23mm thick.

Those dimensions also explain why the UR-1001 belongs in a pocket. This is not a wristwatch adapted with a chain attachment, but a purpose-built object intended to be handled and viewed from both sides. Its front sapphire crystal opens the time display, while the rear crystal gives the long-duration counters their own stage. Water resistance is rated to 3 ATM, a modest but sensible figure for an elaborate pocket watch.

The engraving creates a sharp contrast with the movement architecture. Traditional scrolls and shaded cuts flow around apertures that reveal angular bridges, satellite arms and crisp scales. It is an old decorative language applied to a machine concerned with orbital indications and millennium-scale record keeping. That tension is the point, and it gives Amadeus a distinct identity without changing the functions of the UR-1001 platform.

It also leaves the mechanism's hierarchy intact. The wandering-hour display remains the immediate point of reference, the calendar information sits around it, and the long-duration counters are reserved for the reverse. The decoration fills the metal surrounding those indications rather than competing with the scales themselves.

A unique creation

URWERK describes the UR-1001 Amadeus as a unique piece. The brand has not published a retail price, instead directing prospective clients to enquire.

That absence of a list price fits the nature of the project. Amadeus combines a highly specialised calibre with months of individual handwork, presenting the engraved case and multi-scale mechanism as one unique creation.

For collectors, its significance lies in the way those layers stay legible. The UR-1001 remains a technical statement about measuring time across radically different intervals. Güllert's engraving adds another interval of its own: the hundreds of hours required to turn a titanium case into a continuous, hand-finished engraved surface. The result is not subtle, but it is coherent, and its one-off status feels earned rather than merely declared.

Pricing and availability

The UR-1001 Amadeus is a one-off piece. URWERK does not list a public price or general retail availability; enquiries are handled directly by the brand.