The coolest collab watch ever...? Urwerk and Ulysse Nardin team up with the new UR-FREAK watch

@urwerk @UlysseNardinOfficial #urfreak #dubaiwatchweek #monochromewatches When two of horology’s most daring innovators combine their mechanical languages, the result is a watch that performs with the precision of a scientific instrument and moves with the grace of kinetic sculpture. Not many contemporary watchmaking creations have influenced our perception of time display as dramatically as the Ulysse Nardin Freak (2001) and Urwerk’s wandering-hour satellites. Both were born from the late-1990s creative surge, when mechanical horology strongly demonstrated its experimental and innovative spirit. Ulysse´s Freak redefined the mechanical wristwatch by eliminating the dial, hands, and crown, turning the entire movement into a time-telling carousel. Urwerk, founded in 1997 by Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei, reimagined the display of time itself with its orbiting satellite hours. Now, in 2025, these two paths converge. The UR-FREAK is the first collaboration between Ulysse Nardin and Urwerk, a 3-year project that fuses the Freak’s kinetic architecture (Cal. UN-240) with Urwerk’s signature orbital hour satellites, built into a single, fully integrated in-house calibre. It is not a co-signed cosmetic crossover, but a technical synthesis, a new mechanism born of shared philosophies: independence, creative audacity, and a refusal to compromise. Enough praise, let´s discover this exceptional timepiece. ------------------- 2025, all rights reserved to MONOCHROME Watches. For