URWERK 202 "Twin-Turbine"

This is one really cool piece of work. Regardless of the use and sense of the Twin-Turbines you just can't get sick of seeing them firing away. The UR-201 is no more and the UR-202 has gone full twin-turbine automatic. Quite a new direction for URWERK since this is their first Automatic movement.

The purpose behind this is that both turbines are coupled to the rotor and by you activating the lever permit more or less airflow trough the turbines. The more you leave the flow open the more the rotor is allowed to spin freely. If you decide to close the airflow to the turbines than the rotor is braked and will encounter more resistance. The entire winding system is enclosed inside the waterproof case. The idea behind this is that you can regulate the behavior of the rotor yourself. If you have a sedentary life stile than you set the rotor to "standard" and if you do have a more active lifestyle than "sport" is your setting. This is a more evolved version of Richard Mille's rotor on the RM005, RM010 and RM011 but instead of having this set only at the factory you can do this yourself at your own discretion.

It is unfortunate (but understandable) that the policy of URWERK is not to surpass the 300 units per year in order not to jeopardize quality. I would love to see the UR-102 again for about 8,000 Euros. A slightly more modern version of the 102, even with this turbine mechanism. This would make a lot of people happy that now can't afford one of their current models. Unfortunately they already have much more demand than they CAN and are WILLING to produce. URWERK would not think it ethical and have a third party make the 102. Right now their policy wont budge...

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