URWERK Gives the UR-150 Scorpion a Yellow Gold Sting

URWERK’s UR-150 Scorpion was never going to be a quiet watch, but its latest form turns up the voltage in a different way.

The new UR-150 Golden Scorpion keeps the model’s theatrical satellite-hours display and near-instant retrograde minute hand, then wraps the architecture in yellow gold for a sharper, warmer, more overtly precious take on the concept.

It’s limited to 25 pieces and priced at CHF 105,000 excluding taxes.

At a glance

A Scorpion with a brighter shell

The UR-150 arrived in 2024 as the Scorpion Titan and Scorpion Dark, continuing Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei’s long-running work with satellite time displays.

Those earlier executions leaned into URWERK’s familiar industrial language, where shadow, titanium tones and mechanical exposure did much of the talking.

The Golden Scorpion changes the mood without softening the watch.

Its 2N yellow gold case gives the curved, almost organic profile a more assertive presence, while the Grade 5 titanium caseback keeps the construction tied to the brand’s engineering-first attitude.

The watch is still large at 42.5mm wide, 51mm long and 14.8mm thick, so the gold doesn’t make it discreet.

What it does is add contrast, especially against the openworked dial, black sculptural surfaces and hand-painted white Super-LumiNova accents on the markers and counterweight.

The 240-degree satellite display

The UR-150’s display is the point of the watch.

A large openworked hand frames the active hour on one of three satellites mounted on a central flying carousel, while the hand’s tip reads the minutes along a 240-degree scale.

That unusually wide arc gives the indication a longer sweep than the 120-degree minute tracks associated with many earlier URWERK designs.

When the hand reaches the 60-minute mark, the mechanism performs its signature reset.

The satellites rotate on their own axes and the retrograde hand returns to zero in 1/100th of a second, creating the kind of visible mechanical drama that has become central to URWERK’s appeal.

For the UR-150, the brand developed a satellite complication using a cam and rack system rather than the Maltese-cross construction used in some of its previous work.

That change matters because the display isn’t merely a familiar URWERK module in a new case material.

Gold on the wrist and under the caseback

The back of the Golden Scorpion is where the precious-metal treatment becomes especially clear.

The rotor is sand-blasted and circular-grained, then finished with 3N gold PVD coating, while the turbine bridge reinforces the watch’s mix of spectacle and mechanical control.

The UR-150 also carries URWERK’s twin-turbine automatic winding system, a feature first seen on the UR-202 in 2008.

Mounted on the caseback side, the twin turbines are designed to regulate and cushion the action of the automatic rotor.

A flywheel speed governor helps manage the almost instantaneous retrograde action, adding another layer of mechanical theatre to a watch already built around motion.

The result is not a dressier URWERK in the traditional sense.

It’s still a futuristic machine for collectors who like their mechanics exposed, animated and unconventional, but the gold gives it a stronger jewellery-like charge.

Details & Specifications

The UR-150 Golden Scorpion is best understood as a louder punctuation mark in the Scorpion line rather than a departure from it.

It keeps the speed, tension and technical choreography of the model intact, while giving collectors a version with more flash and a very different wrist presence.