URWERK x REVOLUTION UR-105 BRONZE SAMURAI

Since the beginning of time, since the dawn of Homo erectus, and seen in evidence from the Serengeti plains reaching back 500,000 years, mankind and his forebears have left their decorative mark on the talismans, armour, weapons and tools that populated their personal universes. And it is perhaps in the regressive purity of marking a surface using a sharp tool known as a burin as a way to express the inchoate, to unearth the expressive vision buried beneath the subconscious, to honour one’s gods and express one’s Freudian id that engraving resonates most powerfully.

Since the onset of the Swiss watch industry, engraving has been inextricably linked with the craft of watchmaking. Engraving techniques can be as simple as personalisation with initials, or as elaborate as chased and filigree techniques on cases. The art of is the hand-engraving of massive gold dials with mimetic patterns used in both, which involves painting in translucent enamel over an engraved surface, or in , where parts of a dial or case are excavated and enamel is used to fill the remaining voids to create ethereal artistic microcosms.