Nuit Fantastique Collection
7 april 2021 / Launch
"Nuit Fantastique" Collection
Trilobe unveils new collection
Trilobe, an urgent invitation to take your time! But what for?
For a Fantastic Night!
To take possession of life passionately!
To quiver with refinement, to live and to open up to one’s destiny!
To discover the world around us with new perspectives, Let time surprise us, live every minute without wanting to master them!
Nuit Fantastique was created An evening of lockdown, in an environment full of shackles, rules and prohibitions. Trilobe’s new creative passion, timeless and mysterious, invites you to escape, to free time and space.
Contemporary and classic, «Nuit Fantastique» is a plunge into the deconstructivism called «New Modern Architecture». An architecture that invites to rethink freely: new geometries, atypical forms, movement and dynamism! This unconventional architecture shakes up what we know, disturbs our way of conceiving forms and their functions. It is a new movement that advocates the go beyond the traditional patterns.
The design of this creation favours minimalism and plays with perceptions.
The elegant, grained dial is a real technical challenge, underlying the watch elegance.
It defies symmetrical shapes and is made up of four parts, three of which are in permanent rotation. Raw and uncluttered, this unstructured dial opens three distinct windows: the largest ring for the hours; the minutes wheel that appears within an aperture and the seconds wheel, which alternates between a “Clous de Paris” centre and an azured ring.
The intertwining of the minutes and seconds gives a glimpse of the infinite and the time that goes on endlessly, within a satin-finished and polished in-dial bezel. A new touch of universality and timelessness that is part of this time set in motion, always counterclockwise, an X-Centric conception of watchmaking dear to Trilobe.
Nuit Fantastique is available in silver, black, night blue and «Secret». With a sober and elegant 7 pieces steel case and a resistant sapphire crystal, this creation unveils a new interpretation of the passage of time by Trilobe, while remaining faithful to the X-Centric movement that is the signature of our House.
Secret Edition
15 september 2019 / Launch
"Secret" Edition
Trilobe unveils its personalized edition
“Secret” Edition is an invitation to immortalise a precious moment in a poetic way.
A unique piece
Each dial is personalised and made bespoke: a map of the sky with the stars from the day, time and place that are dear to you, thus, making each watch a unique piece. A subtle way to free time, from a happy or promising moment, and to freeze it for eternity.
At nightfall, after being activated by a UV light, the drawn stars come to life and light in order to illuminate the chosen moment, thus suspending the passage of time. A new invitation to free oneself from time. A unique and meaningful timepiece.
Creation
This watch with a starry sky was Trilobe’s initial project. Facing such technical complexities, this project was developed in parallel with the collection “Les Matinaux”. It took two years of R&D to reach the final result with a personalised watch in an intimate and poetic way.
Indicate a date, a place and a time under “a lucky star” and we obtain the position of the stars for this place and this precise moment. The constellations are engraved on the watch. Each star is then filled one by one with superluminova.
Innovation
Each starry sky dial is custom-made through transfer of the stars. We obtain the position of the stars through an algorithm of 1600 constellations, around a repetitive 4-year cycle. Thus, we are able to determine the starry sky for a moment in the past or in the future. This algorithm is based on the book “Calculs astronomiques à l’usage des amateurs” (Jean Meeus, Société astronomique de France, Paris, 1986). Thus, we are capable to determine the sky of a moment in the past but also in the future.
Une Folle Journée Collection
March 14, 2022 / Launch
Collection "Une Folle Journée"
Trilobe unveils its third collection
An invitation to reach new heights
Remaining faithful to our Maison’s offset artistic DNA, Une Folle Journée is a piece which echoes Trilobe’s first editions and puts our fundamental pillars into perspective. With its rotating and floating eccentric rings, this collection hits new heights by combining fine watchmaking traditions with a contemporary design.
Our Inspiration : Beaumarchais (Le Mariage de Figaro)
The brilliant rhythm of a thrilling storyline which takes us on an unforgettable journey. One of enthusiasm, passion, and panache. Following in the footsteps of Figaro, the main purpose with this piece is to shatter the shackles of tradition by passionately embracing freedom and emancipation. While Beaumarchais, well-known playwright and clockmaker to the King of France, sharpens his pen to fight against a narrow-minded society, Trilobe makes a creative statement in favour of X-Centricity. This freedom bias gives rise to an artistic take: break the rules, ban hands. More than an invitation, Une Folle Journée urges you to embrace your difference.
Trilobe’s Innovation
The Watch hits new heights to forge a technical bond between its off-centre rings and its X-Centric³ (cubic) signature movement. This is what makes the strength of Trilobe’s innovation: the rings are intrinsic to the movement, which alone makes it possible to free Time.
A movement in space
The dial, open for the first time, enables to savour the watchmaking craftsmanship of a Swiss Made calibre, without losing sight of the rotating rings’ singularity. The unfolding of the complication, signed by Trilobe, gives curious onlookers the opportunity to contemplate a striking movement powerfully revisited. The three-dimensional design offers a view on a technical motor assembly with 196 custom-made components.
The rings propelled into the air
The three rings of the hours, minutes and seconds are tiered and fly at a 10.2mm height, a true watchmaking prowess. Projected in space and balanced by 9 pillars, Trilobe’s rings are each the result of a complex assembly.
Like a flying saucer
Une Folle Journée is available in black and blue and comes in a titanium grade 5 case, built with brought lugs around a case middle alternating polished and satin finish.
X-Centric Calibre
15 may 2020 / Launch
"X-Centric" Calibre
Trilobe unveils its automatic movement
Trilobe’s watches are equipped with the X-Centric calibre, an automatic movement designed and developed exclusively for Trilobe.
Trilobe has entrusted its manufacture and partner of La Chaux-de-Fonds, le Cercle des Horlogers, with the task of architecturing its automatic movement with a micro-rotor. Its mission: combine the technical challenge with an ‘‘artistically offbeat’’ approach, while perpetuating Swiss watchmaking excellence. In that spirit, the calibre was designed from amazing architectural perspectives that will take you back to the genesis of Trilobe adventure.
The iconic stature of this unique movement does not only reside in its technical complexity, but also in its handmade finishes involving an outstanding level of detail. Modern, sleek, and refined, these finishes, whether visible or hidden in the heart of the watch, make this calibre into a real artistic creation: micro-blasted and wedged bridges & plates, hand polished wedged ratchet and tints in Trilobe shades.
Trilobe x Hodinkee
June 29, 2023 / Launch
Nuit Fantastique
Limited Edition for Hodinkee
“A timepiece that showcases our idea of beauty through the Hodinkee lens”
Gautier Massonneau, Trilobe’s Founder and Creative Director.
Trilobe is proud to join forces with Hodinkee and to unveil a limited and numeroted edition of 30 pieces. This exclusivity is a fusion of horological heritage and the Maison’s contemporary DNA.
This creation draws on the minimalist aesthetic of the Nuit Fantastique collection while boasting a truly noteworthy evolution– the guilloche dial that is adorned with not one but two distinct patterns.
Guilloche represents a harmonious blend of tradition and complexity, serving as one of the most challenging techniques for crafting a dial. Trilobe has previously ventured into this type of finishing only once before, further underscoring the significance of this design element.
The base of the dial shows an exquisite Grain d’Orge patterning, meticulously carved into the surface using a hand-operated rose engine machine. This time-honored apparatus, largely unchanged over the course of several centuries, demands the skillful expertise of an artisan to intricately shape the dial’s motifs. Within the seconds disk, a Clous de Paris pattern takes form—an elegant arrangement of straight-line engravings that starkly contrast with the dial’s rounded etchings. The juxtaposition of these contrasting elements generates a captivating visual tension, enhancing the allure of both designs.
To accentuate the prominence of the captivating guilloche patterns on the dial, a deliberate decision was made to omit the Trilobe name while retaining the logo, which serves a dual purpose as the hour marker. This thoughtful approach ensures that the guilloche designs take center stage, allowing their intricate beauty to command attention and become the focal point of the watch.
Focusing on the hours ring, Trilobe chose to offer a fresh take on timekeeping by trading Arabic numerals for the timeless elegance of Roman numerals, a humble way to pay tribute to the history of time telling. A slight slant to the numerals accentuates the movement of the outer disk, emphasizing the passing of time.
The Trilobe Nuit Fantastique Limited Edition For Hodinkee measures just 38.5mm in diameter and 9.2mm thick, offering a perfect balance between presence on the wrist and comfort. The case is made from lightweight Grade 5 titanium, lending its greyish hue to the satin-brushed mid-case. The polished lugs flow to a slightly domed bezel that houses a sapphire crystal with multi-layered anti-reflective treatment (ARDUR), ensuring an optimal view from any angle.
Powering this watch is a self-winding mechanical movement with a micro-rotor, called the X-Centric Calibre. The X-Centric Calibre is designed and created by Trilobe and manufactured by hand in Switzerland’s storied La Chaux-de-Fonds by Le Cercle des Horlogers.
With a 48-hour power reserve and an operating frequency of 28.800 vibrations per hour (4Hz), the X Centric Calibre represents a marvel of engineering composed of 33 functional rubies and a total of 215 components. Turning the watch over will reward you with a view of the movement that features micro-blasted bridges and plates, which are frosted to achieve a fine-grain effect in the brass and then electroplated for a striking black-gold surface.
Along the edge of the caseback, the individual number of each watch is engraved X/30, a reminder that the Trilobe Nuit Fantastique Limited Edition for Hodinkee is part of a very exclusive production run of just 30 pieces.
Nuit Fantastique Green
6 June 2022 / Launch
Trilobe dresses in green
This new version of Nuit Fantastique Grained Green is a tribute to Trilobe’s audacity. Combining French creativity and Swiss watchmaking excellence, this creation is designed for those who dare and are not afraid to step aside. Whether it’s almond, emerald, Irish or Peter Pan, green is a color that will never end to stir up controversy… and dazzle!
Trilobe chose to adorn its fantastic night dial with a striking imperial green shade. Crafted in titanium grade 5 or 18-carat rose gold, our case has been specially designed to house the X-Centric movement. This grained green edition embodies with modernity and elegance a daring yet timeless luxury, for an offbeat watch creation.
Nuit Fantastique Dune
6 june 2022 / Launch
Trilobe in two-tone
This new model takes as its mantra “best of both worlds“, for a pure and natural creation. This time, our iconic grained dial dons its summer dress with a colour reminiscent of dune sand. For fans of 1930s vintage chic, this Dune edition is the rebirth of a fiery, flamboyant hue whose refinement has already proven itself. Emphasizing and sublimating the infinity symbol through a colour contrast, the dune grained dial awakens under the light of the polished and satin-finished angles, like grains of sand in a desert lit by a radiant sun.
Designed for a titanium grade 5 or 18-carat rose gold case, the Dune edition of the Nuit Fantastique collection pays tribute to the purity of Trilobe’s design. The treatment of the stamped and grained dial unfolds the dune color of this edition, thus creating the illusion of sand settled on the dial. This edition is an ode to natural, sophisticated, and humble elegance, embodying with finesse and style a timeless and refined luxury, for an offbeat watch creation.
A unique case
13 december 2021 / Launch
An intimate & personalised case
To the Secret watch, Trilobe has now added an extra layer of personalisation: a starry case. Under a cover made of bluish sycamore and cedar wood marquetry, a sky map, the result of Trilobe innovation, becomes a decorative element of a precious enclosure. Dressed up with a starry sky illuminating a unique and intimate secret, Trilobe brings a new touch of magic, poetry and emotion into this object, which then reflects all the power of the Secret watch it contains.
A collaboration Trilobe x Elie Bleu
Initially designed to house the watch, this case can, if desired, take on a more aromatic role. Indeed, this large blue lacquered box can accommodate up to forty Robusto cigars in the best conditions. For cigar lovers, this exceptional box is the result of a unique collaboration with the Parisian cigar maker Elie Bleu.
Specialised in precious boxes, the craftsmen and manufacturer perpetuate the know-how of master cabinet makers. The high standards of quality and technicality achieved in the making of this exceptional product echo those respected by the master watchmakers of La Chaux-de-Fonds who developed Trilobe watches. Elie Bleu puts his creativity at the service of his productions, working with noble materials and respecting the traditions of which he has been the guarantor for nearly 45 years, and for the first time in a personalised work.
Case specifications
Box made of two types of wood (Sycamore and Cedar).
Cover decorated with a bespoke starry sky reflecting the day time and place that are dear to you, making each case a unique piece.
Cigar humidor
Capacity of 40 cigars in the Robusto format.
Equipment including a humidifier and a needle hygrometer.
Dimensions
Width : 30 cm
Depth : 24,50 cm
Height : 11,50 cm
Care instructions
1. Keep away from heat sources
2. Clean the varnished surface with a
microfiber towel
3. Never use water inside the case
Price upon request
Delivery time: 4 months after receipt of the order
Nuit Fantastique Havana
29 october 2021 / Launch
A timeless and sophisticated luxury
for an offset timepiece
Designed exclusively for a Rose Gold case, the Havana edition of the Nuit Fantastique collection is a true treasure of style and refinement. The chocolate-coloured grained dial skilfully marries the delicacy of the rose gold on the infinity flange, the iconic symbol of the Nuit Fantastique collection.
To discover our collections, contact us to arrange a personalised appointment at our Parisian Pied-à Terre (2nd).
Where to find us:
cercle@trilobe.com
+33 1 42 33 52 96
Les Matinaux in 38,5mm
12 november 2020 / Launch
"Les Matinaux" Collection
Trilobe unveils a new edition
In a spirit of both continuity and break with the past, tradition and innovation, poetry and architecture, Trilobe unveils two years after its launch a more feminine interpretation of its collection ‘‘Les Matinaux’’, focusing on style rather than gender.
To reinvent its watch every morning without losing its own characteristics, ‘‘Les Matinaux’’, now available with a smaller case of 38,5mm, dresses up with materials and colors. A various and colored range of straps equipped with an interchangeable system completes the collection. A more stylistic and sparkling universe but always timeless!
In keeping with the unique spirit of the brand, this edition of Les Matinaux houses the integrated automatic movement of Trilobe, the X-Centric calibre. Mirror of the brand identity, this calibre enhances architectural geometry : a contemporary distinction with a refined design. Its harmony brings refinement and modernity to this unique piece while the micro-rotor combines finesse and technical performance.
