Urwerk’s Unique UR-1001 Amadeus Puts Baroque Engraving on a Millennium Counter
WatchPro reported on 24 August 2026 that Urwerk has completed a unique UR-1001 Amadeus pocket watch in titanium, hand-engraved for about 500 hours by German artist Florian Güllert. The case measures 106 × 62 × 23mm. Price is on application. A nascent pocket-watch fashion, the report said, gives Urwerk’s satellite displays more volume than a wrist case allows.
Two faces of long-duration time
One side carries Urwerk’s rotating satellite hours and retrograde minutes, a second revolving satellite for months with a retrograde day pointer, plus day/night and power-reserve indications. The other side has an “oil change” indicator intended to flag service every five years, and a linear-time complication spanning the next 1,000 years. Co-founder Felix Baumgartner said the raw titanium case was given to Güllert so the exterior would match the movement’s extravagance. The name Amadeus is a nod to Mozart as “avant-gardist.”
Güllert described a new-to-him laser rough-cut on titanium, then hand finishing. The project took nearly three months, about 500 hours including design. He called the caseback the hardest surface: thick and thin strokes and voids pushed to a Baroque limit. Urwerk’s statement framed the object as two crafts: mechanics that “span a millennium” and engraving whose complexity should still look natural.
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Model | UR-1001 Amadeus, unique piece |
| Case | Titanium, 106 × 62 × 23mm |
| Engraving | ~500 hours, Florian Güllert |
| Hours / minutes | Satellite hours, retrograde minutes |
| Calendar face | Month satellite, retrograde days, day/night, reserve |
| Reverse | 5-year oil-change indicator; 1,000-year linear counter |
| Calibre family | UR-10.01 (39-hour reserve in the UR-1001 line) |
| Price | On application |
The UR-1001 architecture is not new as a pocket instrument; the Amadeus edition is the baroque skin and the unique status. Satellite hours need lateral space. A 106mm case is closer to a carriage clock than to a 42mm sports watch. That is the industrial logic WatchPro pointed to: pocket formats are back because some complications were never comfortable on the wrist.
Scale, service, and smaller platforms
A five-year oil-change disc is a theatrical service reminder. Most mechanical watches, including aftermarket NH builds, still follow a multi-year service interval without a dedicated hand. Builders who do their own casing still need to know what sits inside; an NH35/NH36/NH34 comparison is the everyday version of reading a calibre family before buying parts. GMT layouts are another way to add a second time path without a 1,000-year counter; a GMT mod build guide covers the extra hand and 24-hour chapter on a 39–42mm case.
Revolution and WatchPro both treated the piece as a collision of historical decoration and Urwerk’s satellite language. There is no production run to allocate. The news is that a living engraver spent three months on one titanium hull so a millennium complication would not sit in a plain slab.
FAQ
Is this a wristwatch? No. It is a unique pocket watch. Dimensions are 106 × 62 × 23mm in titanium.
What does the oil-change indicator do? It is specified as a five-year service reminder, one of the long-duration indications on the reverse beside the 1,000-year linear counter.
How long did the engraving take? Güllert cited about 500 hours over nearly three months, including design, with laser roughing then hand work, especially on the caseback.