Compressed Spring 2026 Issue - Flipbook - Page 25
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JOY RIDE
A TIMEPIECE WORTHY of Holly Golightly, the Tiffany Taxi Clock is timekeeping at its most
whimsical. Crafted from aluminum layered with Tiffany Blue paint, the object—made by the expert
Swiss clockmakers at L’Epée—faithfully recreates a 1950s New York City taxicab, down to its
tail-fin fenders and yellow taxi sign. The 11.7-pound object features two mechanisms, one that
displays the time (on rotating stainless-steel disks atop columns that resemble engine air filters)
and another that powers the engine. Now there’s a reason to keep the meter running!
(Tiffany Taxi Clock in aluminum with Tiffany Blue paint; $55,000; tiffany.com)
Urwerk UR-100V LS
“LightSpeed” Ceramic
in 43 mm white
composite ceramic
case; $90,000;
urwerk.com
S T E A L
Split Second
COSMIC VOYAGE
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INCE 1997, when
master watchmaker Felix
Baumgartner and
designer and
artist Martin Frei cofounded
Urwerk (the name is a mashup of Ur, the Sumerian city
where modern timekeeping
began, and werk, the German
word for work), the brand has
produced timepieces that,
despite their avant-garde
styling, are more concerned
with the philosophy of time.
The brand’s latest wristwatch, the limited-edition
UR-100V LS LightSpeed
Ceramic, continues that
tradition. Like Urwerk’s earliest timepieces, the automatic
GEMANDJEWEL.COM
OFTEN DESCRIBED AS the
watch world’s biggest
model, which comes in a 43
mm white composite ceramic
case, employs an unconventional, satellite-based
time display. In addition to
indications for the hour and
minutes, the watch shows the
time it takes for a sunbeam
to reach eight of the planets
in the solar system, “effectively turning the dial into
a readable model of cosmic
distance and reinforcing the
idea that what we perceive in
the universe is always delayed
reality,” according to the
brand. More than a simple
time-measuring device, the
UR-100V makes clear that
our days are but a blip on the
space-time continuum.
prankster, French creative
Romaric André, better
known as seconde/
seconde/, brings his
signature subversive
wit to Citizen’s
Tsuyosa collection.
Playing on the
model’s name—which
translates to “power”
and “strength” in
Japanese—he reimagines
the minute hand in this
limited-edition timepiece
as a katana rendered in retro
pixel-art style. The effect is both
playful and precise, heightened
by the illusion that the blade has
cleanly sliced through the hour
indices. ($495; citizen.com)
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