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Lockheed Martin’s SR-71 Blackbird may be retired, but some of it continues to live on in the Urwerk EMC SR-71. It’s limited to 10-units and uses parts from the fuselage of the legendary reconnaissance aircraft.
This Electronic Mechanical Control (EMC) watch utilizes an optical sensor linked to the balance wheel. The former contains a transmitter and receiver positioned on either side of the balance to record the oscillations of this organ operating at 28,800 vph —4 Hz— for three seconds in order to obtain the most accurate possible measurement possible in a wristwatch. One caveat: it costs $175,000 USD.
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In URWERK’s U-Research Division – the brand’s ‘experimental laboratory’ – some wild projects emerge. This innovative, anti-establishment spirit has now been channelled into a watchmaking Holy Grail: fully interactive, EMC (Electro Mechanical Control) is the world’s first precision mechanical watch in which the timing can be both monitored and adjusted by the user to suit their lifestyle,” said the company.
