Independent Watchmaker Urwerk’s Martin Frei on the EMC SR-71 Watch

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Urwerk has handily made our list of the 25 best independent watchmakers in the world, and in 2014, Urwerk introduced a wristwatch that Robb Report named to its “Best of the Best” list. Known as the EMC—or Electro Mechanical Control—the watch earned two prizes at that year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, one for “Mechanical…