{"id":28802,"date":"2024-01-07T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/lamc-durwerk-lheure-atomique-encapsulee-au-bracelet\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T07:50:20","slug":"the-urwerk-amc-atomic-time-encapsulated-on-the-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/the-urwerk-amc-atomic-time-encapsulated-on-the-wrist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urwerk AMC, atomic time encapsulated on the wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Housed in a watch connected to a suitcase that looks like a president’s with the ultimate weapon, the atomic precision that F\u00e9lix Baumgartner and Martin Frei celebrate manages to transfer to a mechanical oscillator.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean, JSH Magazine & Swiss-Watch-Passport.ch’s Editor in chief<\/em>
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Flash back! F\u00e9lix Baumgartner, co-founder of Urwerk and founding father of nouvelle horlogerie, was trained as a restorer of antique timepieces as were today’s most ingenious inventors of complicated calibers. He propels the original values of his first model, the UR-101, beyond the “Millennium Falcon<\/a>” fuselage, the Star Wars starship. “Urwerk’s AMC breaks the limits of mechanical watchmaking and restores the oscillator to the pinnacle of chronometry.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

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Urwerk: “The mechanical oscillator isn’t perfect, perhaps it never will be, but, when coupled with its atomic reference, it has the ability to self-perfect.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>

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How to physically materialize two fascinating concepts of excellence: mechanical beauty and atomic accuracy? Avant-garde and visionary, the brand created a project consisting of a mechanical watch, the AMC, and an atomic clock, at the leading edge of technological time. It opens up a hitherto unimaginable connection between the time of the balance-spring and the anchor escapement and the time of this Atomolithe, a kind of “suitcase<\/em>” containing a 35 kg atomic pendulum housed in an aluminum case with measurements roughly similar to those of a medium-sized computer tower.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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F\u00e9lix Baumgartner: “establishing a point of convergence between these two devices, teaching these singular and complex mechanisms to interact”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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