Trilobe x Grail Watch Edition
19 Décember 2022 / Collaboration
Trilobe for Grail Watch
“Imagine the three primary time-telling disks first brought to life in Les Matinaux now powered by an alien force field, so that they levitate off the dial and are retained only by the canopy of domed sapphire crystal.” Wei Koh
An exclusive partnership
Introducing Une Folle Soirée, our limited edition in collaboration with Grail Watch. This piece combines the artistic expressiveness of Trilobe with the luminous signature of Wei Koh, founder of Revolution, Grail Watch and The Rake. The 25 numbered pieces of this edition were sold out within minutes, following its launch on the Grail Watch platform on Monday, November 19th. [DISCOVER]
A luminous signature
“My first impression when setting eyes on Une Folle Journée was of three UFOs in a coordinated flight pattern landing on the surface of a planet. And I knew immediately that I would love to see this featuring a maximum light show when the watch was in an ambient or dark setting.” Wei Koh
The edition Une Folle Soirée is thus characterized by its luminous signature, which distinguishes it from our collection “Une Folle Journée” (A Crazy Day). The numerals, the indicator and the edges of the bridges and plates are covered with a luminescent coating.
“Step into darkness and the watch simply ignites on your wrist, giving another dimension to the thrilling artistic expressiveness of Trilobe.” Wei Koh
Like a flying saucer
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.
They fly in the air carrying with them the scales of time: the largest ring for hours, the median one for minutes, the smallest one for seconds.
The open dial enables to savour the watchmaking craftsmanship of a Swiss Made calibre, without losing sight of the rotating rings’ singularity.
Wei Koh
Considered one of the greatest watch influencers of this century. It all began in 2005, when Wei Koh launched the watch magazine Revolution, which is now published in 17 countries and has become one of the most influential paper magazines in the world. In early 2022, he unveiled his new project around watchmaking, Grail Watch, through which he partners with independent watch brands to offer exclusive limited edition pieces to his community. Our piece Une Folle Soirée, launched in December 2022, is the third chapter of Grail Watch, and follows a collaboration with Ressence and Franck Muller.
Technical specificities :
Movement
Calibre X-Centric³, self-winding mechanical calibre with micro-rotor. Luminescent coating on the edges of the plates and bridges. 48 hours of power reserve. Balance frequency: 28’800 vph (4 Hz). Functional rubies: 33. Total components: 196
Movement dimensions
Thickness : 6.49 mm
Diameter : 35.2mm.
Patent
A display concept composed of three devices representing the hours, minutes & seconds
Functions
Hours, minutes, seconds subdial displayed by rotating rings and a fixed pointer. Titanium rings colorized through DLC coating (Diamond-Like Carbon). Pad-printed numerals. Luminescent coating on numerals and pointer
Strap
Leather with a pin buckle in titanium
Case
Made of grade 5 titanium. Mirror-polished surfaces alternating with satin-brushed treatments. Domed bezel with sapphire crystal and multi-layered anti-reflective treatment (ARDUR). Brought horns. Anti-reflective sapphire back. Water-resistance tested to 5 bar (≈ 50 meters)
Case dimensions
Thickness: 17.8 mm
Diameter : 40.5 mm
Height : 10.2 mm
Lug to lug : 48 mm
Lug width : 20 mm
Trilobe x Dubai Watch Club Edition
18 November 2022 / Collaboration
Trilobe for the Dubai Watch Club
Through the mashrabiya screen, he observes the beauty of the landscape.
Under the light of a setting sun, the sand of the desert takes a copper color.
He dreams of a flourishing oasis where several shades of green intertwine.
A rare and cherished color in the region.
Exclusively for the Dubai Watch Club enthusiasts, Trilobe faced the challenge to rethink its iconic «Nuit Fantastique» collection. A brand new design, the result of a meeting between two men sharing a common passion for watchmaking, Nawaf Al Abdooli and Gautier Massonneau.
Nuit Fantastique is a classic: its design overturns the status quo, inviting you to open up to the world and its new perspectives. Trilobe transports you: inspired by oriental architecture, the watch is dressed up with a guilloche dials adorned with mashrabiya motif. Its hue is reminiscent of the national flag of the Emirates or the Arab League one. The numerals, written in literary Arabic, tell the story of time by gently scattering on the dial. A mesmerizing ensemble, which perfectly represents the image of the Dubai Watch Club.
An harmonious and singular design based on Trilobe’s foundations. Still equipped with the X-Centric calibre, the signature movement of the brand, Trilobe engraved the Dubai Watch Club’s symbol on the micro rotor.
The elegant guilloche dial 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 larger ring for hours, the minute wheel that appears within an aperture, and the seconds wheel that alternates between a “Clous de Paris” center 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.
Technical specificities :
Movement
Self-winding integrated mechanical calibre with micro-rotor. 48 hours of power reserve. Balance frequency: 28’800 vph (4 Hz). Functional rubies: 33. Total components: 230
Movement dimensions
Thickness : 5,78 mm
Diameter : 35,2 mm
Patent
A display concept composed of three devices representing the hours, minutes & seconds located on the same plane as the dial
Functions
Hours, minutes, seconds subdial displayed by rotating rings and fixed indicators
Strap
Camel leather with titanium pin buckle
Case
Made of titanium grade 5. Made up of 7 pieces. Mirror-polished surfaces alternating with satinbrushed treatments. Domed bezel with sapphire crystal and multi-layered anti-reflective treatment (ARDUR). Brought lugs. Anti-reflective sapphire back. Water-resistance tested to 5 bar (≈ 50 meters). Push button crown.
Case dimensions
Thickness: 9.2 mm
Diameter: 38.5 mm
Lug to lug: 45.5 mm
Lug width: 20 mm
La Réciproque Clock
15 september 2021 / Collaboration
"La Réciproque" Clock
Trilobe by Daniel Buren
For Only Watch 2021 edition, Trilobe and Daniel Buren have decided to offer a unique creation, based on a singular and meaningful collaboration.
It is from a desire for reciprocity that the Trilobe by Daniel Buren project was born: to combine a young watchmaking House with one of the most recognised Artist on the international scene. Around a scarlet beating heart, imagine a duality between the technicality of the watchmaker and the unique proposal of the Artist in an immediate dialogue with the “X-Centricity” of Trilobe. Daniel Buren and Trilobe have fun with their encounter: opposing forms and colours, disturbing the view, questioning the mind. Art and watchmaking oppose and meet each other, in reciprocal forces.
La réciproque
Forms, colours and meanings find their reciprocal,
Hours, minutes and seconds dance around each other,
Black and White marry to the beating of a red heart,
Verticality is amused by circularity,
The frantic race of the “X-Centric” rings overlaps the verticality of the 8.7cm wide strips,
Colours leave and find each other again,
Shapes finally align themselves twice a day only,
At the time when it all began, the time of the first meeting of Daniel Buren & Trilobe, at 02:13pm.
The D-Centric Calibre
Designed as the scarlet beating heart of the work, this mechanical calibre is unlike any other. It combines the architectural codes dear to Trilobe with the artistic vision of the Sculptor Daniel Buren. A real technical challenge, it took several months of development to create this unique calibre, designed in France and entirely handmade by Swiss watchmakers in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. inspired by Trilobe’s signature X-Centric Calibre, each part has been recalibrated to the scale of this unique clock, to allow the display of the hours, the minutes and the seconds by rotating rings and fixed indicators. In the purest horological tradition, the clock is equipped with a constant-force escapement, while the barrel has been doubled to provide an eight-day power reserve. It features the excellent finishes of traditional watchmaking, with hand-polishing, bevelled bridges, as well as sunburst barrels and a sandblasted plate.
Daniel Buren
Considered one of the most recognised French Artist on the international scene, Daniel Buren has had nearly 3,000 exhibitions around the world. including Monumenta at the Grand Palais (2012), the Observatory of Light at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2016), “Les Deux Plateaux” in the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais Royal, the Venice Biennale on more than 10 occasions with the Golden Lion in 1986 or the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2005, without forgetting the memorable exhibition using all the available spaces, on the rooftops, in the basement, in the caterpillar, on the balconies, at the Pompidou Centre in 2002. In 2007, Daniel Buren was awarded the Praemium Imperiale of Japan for his work, the highest honour in the field of the visual arts.
Collaboration with Fabrice Ausset
May 16, 2022 / Collaboration
Trilobe x Fabrice Ausset
Carré des horlogers - W&W 2022
For its first physical participation in Watches and Wonders, Trilobe joined the architect-designer Fabrice Ausset to enhance its space. In the Carré des Horlogers, Trilobe had the honour of revealing its collections while seating comfortably on the Rocks on the Moon, in a stand designed by Procept, event designer and producer.
The collaboration of Fabrice Ausset – creator of Rocks on the Moon – with the Fine watchmaking brand Trilobe appeared as an obvious choice. Trilobe wished to assert its innovative vision of time: a time for oneself, a time we offer ourselves, a reconnection bubble, which allows contemplation. A time that frees itself from the surrounding immediacy, and suggests to anyone who will listen that life is also around us and, more importantly in front of us.
This is the philosophy behind Fabrice Ausset’s rocks. In a landscape that lends itself to contemplation and height, these extracts of nature are volumes encouraging discussion and exchange, evolving constructions with a random fate that one can modulate at will. They offer a soft shape to the body which takes hold of them, curls up in them, finds its position.
It is also the idea of «rethinking» that unites the two craftsmen, by choosing to challenge some previously untouchable absolutes. For more than 7 centuries, we have been reading the time in the same way, and everything suggests that we have been sitting on a chair since the Egyptian era… Why not offer something else? A watch without hands? A more instinctive way of sitting?
This is the heart of the Trilobe x Fabrice Ausset collaboration: to break what has been earned. To the question «how do we sit in 2022?» Fabrice Ausset has chosen to answer with anachrony. An almost archaic return to our roots: the body finds a spontaneous, authentic, almost naïve position on these rocks. It thus contemplates the time offered to it on a Trilobe watch, which has only one message: to free this time. A meaningful collaboration that will make many people meditate: on age-old rocks, reading an innovative time, and combining opposing temporalities. An oxymoron if ever there was one!
Trilobe's launch in Germany
17 may 2021 / Partenariat
Our launch in Germany
Maison Trilobe is very pleased to announce its launch in Germany, in partnership with CPR Climax Public Relations. We are joining prestigious brands that are promoting their know-how and the excellence of their expertise through the voice of Thomas Glaue.
The deployment of Trilobe in Germany is part of an international development strategy. After the United States, Hong Kong and Mexico, Trilobe is delighted to be able to count Germany in its distribution network.
Contact :
CPR climax public relations UG
Moorweidenstrasse 8
20148 HAMBURG
+49-40-5379857-40
https://www.climaxpr.com/
Trilobe's launch in the United States
1st september 2020 / Partnership
Our launch in the United States
“Tough times provide opportunities for the small but experienced professionals to distinguish themselves and grow.” Alexis Sarkissian, president and founder of the distribution agency Totally Worth It.
Trilobe is very pleased to announce its launch in the United States, in partnership with the agency Totally Worth It, which includes prestigious brands able to generate the interest and enthusiasm of retailers, private clients and press.
After evolving in the watchmaking industry for more than 20 years, Alexis Sarkissian decided to launch its distribution agency in North America, specialized in exceptional timepieces.
Trilobe’s implementation in the United States is part of its international development strategy, one and a half year after the launch of the brand in France. Hong-Kong marks the next step of Trilobe’s expansion outside French borders, with the opening of a corner in Lavish Attic concept store at the end of october.
Contact :
Totally Worth It
76 Division Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901
+1 201 894 4710 Office
+1 724 263 2286 Mobile
www.totallyworthit.com
Trilobe at – Only Watch 2019
02 July 2019 / Event
Trilobe « Les Matinaux » x Only Watch
“You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify and burn” René Char
Trilobe is very proud to support the Only Watch Charity Auction. This auction, that will be held on the 9th of November 2019 in Geneva, is the premier international watchmaking charity event. Since 2005, the Monegasque Association has already raised more than 40 million Swiss Francs in funds. These funds proceeds to finance research in the field of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative neuromuscular disease that affects more than 3500 young people around the world.
Trilobe’s unique piece “Les Matinaux” – Only Watch 2019 – is a tribute to all communities fighting strongly and audaciously for effective research and patient’s treatments in the future.
This unique piece in bronze compresses life challenges into prose from René Char engraved at the back of the watch.
René Char is a poet who fearlessly shouted out “Impose your luck, embrace your happiness and go toward your risks: by looking at you, they’ll get used to it”. He paved the way for hope, courage, human warmth and wisdom. With the courtesy of Madame Char and Gallimard Publishing House, the back of the watch has been exclusively engraved with his quote along with the poet’s original signature.
To learn more about Only Watch and its fight against the Duchenne muscular dystrophy:
Trilobe at Printemps Haussmann – Paris
02 May 2019 / Collab
Trilobe corner at Printemps Haussmann
– Paris –
A temple of Parisian chic, a listed historical monument and a world reference in fashion and luxury, Trilobe is delighted to join the most emblematic brands in watchmaking and jewellery.
Meet us on the first floor of the Le Printemps Luxury, boulevard Haussmann, in Paris.
Trilobe at Temps & Passion – Monaco
11 April 2019 / Collab
Trilobe at Temps & Passion
– Monaco –
Trilobe was pleased to inaugurate its presence during the reopening cocktail after the embellishment of the boutique Temps et Passion in Monaco.
A watchmaker with a great know-how in exceptional watches in Monaco, a place for professionalism and expertise where enthusiasts meet.
Hugo Marchand, friend of Trilobe
17 December 2018 / Collab
Hugo Marchand, Trilobe ambassador
for our launch party
“Dance is architecture in motion.”
He dances, he flies, he swirls, he grabs a second of weightlessness, excels in his art and makes you dream. Hugo Marchand, star dancer of the Paris Opera since 2017, embodies architecture in motion” and our values of boldness, artistic sensitivity and technical prowess.
We were deeply honoured to welcome Hugo Marchand, such a talented and passionate Trilobe ambassador for our launch, at the “Musée des Arts et Métiers” in Paris.
Hugo Marchand and his watch « Les Matinaux » in Sunray Blue
Hugo Marchand and his watch « Les Matinaux » in Sunray Blue
