Making this watch offered the formidable younger firm with quite a lot of challenges. This watch was the primary Urwerk that utilized a extra three-dimensional, architectural case development. The UR-101 and 102 instances had been initially hand-lathed by Baumgartner’s brother, however that was unimaginable with the UR-103. This meant they needed to convey CNC machines and Three-D design instruments into the combination, which got here with their very own set of challenges and advantages. Martin Frei, Baumgartner’s co-founder and the one largely answerable for the UR-103’s design, was residing in Brooklyn, New York, on the time, and this meant he wanted a pc to plan out this new case. Frei ordered a pc from the legendary digicam and electronics retailer B&H and waited patiently, nevertheless it by no means confirmed up. Because it turned out, it had unintentionally been delivered to a sketchy workshop someplace else within the warehouse advanced and his landlord by no means bothered to inform him. Fortunately, he discovered it earlier than another person scooped it up. May you think about if Urwerk had gone down as a result of a easy misplaced package deal?
