Urwerk co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have allowed their watchmaking and artistic minds to run wild in the creation of a five-foot high time-telling modern artwork for the Only Watch charity auction.
The Space Time Blade by Urwerk looks like a shoulder-high lightsabre with a bronze base and enormous glass dome housing a vertical display of illuminated digits that tell the time.
The artwork was made by Dalibor Farny, who specializes in creating glass and electronic timekeeping art.
The time is shown on eight glowing nixie tubes, also known as cold cathode displays, an early form of digital display from the 1950s.
The Urwerk piece can be configured to show the time in hours, minutes, seconds, or a more frenetic hours, minutes, seconds, 1/10 and 1/100 of a second.
In true Urwerk style, there are also settings to show the distance covered by the earth’s equator in one day, how far the earth travels around the sun in a day or how far it goes around the sun in a year.
The Only Watch auction, which raises money for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, takes place online and in Geneva’s Palexpo Centre on November 5.
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