The Trilobe Manufacture
September 4, 2025 / Press Room
Parisian Manufacture
of creative and artistic High Watchmaking
Born in Paris, Trilobe proudly embraces a deep connection with the City of Light, a land of literary, artistic, and horological inspiration. Attached to the meaning of things, we have chosen Paris as our setting, establishing our watchmaking workshop in the heart of the Opéra district, a few steps away from Place Vendôme, in a place rich in history and culture. This location marks a return to our roots, just steps from the Palais Royal, the cradle of French horological excellence.
From the windows of Trilobe’s workspace, bathed in light under the roofs of grand Haussmann buildings, one sees the dome of the Opéra Garnier and glimpses the Vendôme Column. It’s here that a team of passionate individuals designs the Maison’s timepieces. Like in the past, they work under one roof, fostering interaction, free flow of ideas, responsiveness, and initiative.
The close proximity between product, mechanical engineers, prototyping, and watchmaking teams gave birth to this new collection. It also guarantees the true respect of the Maison’s DNA and a mechanism at the service of the dial’s poetry.
A new components production site
Our Manufacture now includes a high-precision component production facility near Paris. This is a key step in our vertical integration strategy, essential for ensuring quality, securing our supply chain, and preserving our freedom to innovate.
Multi-axis machining centers
Equipped with the latest multi-axis machining centers, this facility enables the production of complex components with micron-level precision. Each element is crafted to strict tolerances, with refined finishes and rigorous quality checks at every stage.
An advanced metrology
Advanced metrology allows for precise, instant measurements that guarantee dimensional reliability and consistency in production.
By internalizing our micro-precision expertise, we gain total control over repeatability, enhanced responsiveness, and a consistently high level of excellence.
Trente-Deux Collection
September 4, 2025 / Launch
Trente-Deux,
A new steel signature
Created to accompany the launch of our first Manufacture calibre, the Trente-Deux collection builds upon the legacy of Trilobe’s early creations, staying true to our foundation. Our off-center time display and the reimagined architecture of the Nuit Fantastique dial are paired with an integrated metal bracelet, opening a new territory of expression.
The X-Nihilo calibre, first Trilobe Manufacture movement
Conceived, designed, developed, prototyped, machined, decorated, and assembled entirely in-house, the X-Nihilo is Trilobe’s first Manufacture movement.
Its bold architecture revolves around an open island, creating space and spotlighting an isolated, magnified balance wheel.
It offers a 42-hour power reserve, combining technical excellence with a distinctive aesthetic.
The metal bracelet, a new signature for Trilobe
Case and bracelet are designed as a sophisticated, cohesive whole. The bracelet is shaped to perfectly hug the wrist, with each satin-brushed and beveled link gradually narrowing for a refined and fluid taper. The interlinks, polished to a mirror finish, echo the Trilobe’s pointed shape, creating a signature motif and animating the surface with a subtle play of light.
Structurally, the bracelet alternates links and interlinks in a simple yet refined layout and adjusts smoothly thanks to its flexible construction. Interlinks differ on their visible and internal faces: decorative on the outside, functional on the inside, ensuring overall robustness.
The bracelet features a double folding clasp engraved with the Trilobe logo. With no visible push buttons, it operates via a spring blade for clean aesthetics and intuitive handling.
A reimagined case
The case is composed of seven individually-finished elements, revealing a sculptural silhouette. It features three chamfered tiers with asymmetrical lateral fins and a beveled mid-case.
The bezel presents a unique design: its profile is fluted, with mirror-polished ridges and matte-finished grooves, enhancing the interplay of contrast and light. Its geometry subtly incorporates the Trilobe motif.
This new architecture directly echoes the design of the crown, which was specially conceived for this collection.
The reinvented Nuit Fantastique
The Trente-Deux collection remains true to Trilobe’s iconic off-center time display, while introducing a completely reimagined dial. A circular chapter ring, both satin-brushed and mirror-polished, echoes the bracelet’s finish and anchors the composition. Its extreme thinness, combined with its large diameter, requires absolute precision in machining to ensure perfect flatness without deformation.
The dial, available in grey or blue and measuring 39.5 mm in diameter, also plays with textures: a matte sunray finish, grained discs for hours and minutes, and a seconds wheel combining azurage with Clous de Paris guilloché.
Conceived at 32 Opéra
32 is much more than a number. It is the address of our design studio and Parisian workshop. It has also been the internal code name for our latest collection for more than three years of development. It is our anchor, the guiding thread that inspired every step of the creation process. Today, this collection becomes the manifesto of our independence, our commitment to doing things differently, here in Paris, with excellence, inventiveness, and passion.
X-Nihilo Calibre
September 4, 2025 / Launch
"X-Nihilo" Calibre
Our first Manufacture movement
Conceived, designed, developed, prototyped, machined, decorated, and assembled entirely in-house, the X-Nihilo is Trilobe’s first Manufacture movement. It powers all the models in the Trente-Deux collection.
Its bold architecture revolves around an open island, creating space and spotlighting an isolated, magnified balance wheel. The X-Nihilo calibre offers a 42-hour power reserve, combining technical excellence with a distinctive aesthetic.
A play of textures and finishes
Every detail is designed to highlight the contrasts within the movement: fine or raw graining on the bridges and mainplate, black polishing on the screws for a subtle finish. Screws and rubies are highlighted with concave, diamond-polished surroundings. The bridges feature hand-made satin finishes, while the rhodium-plated gears display a circular graining that echoes their rotation. The oscillating weight combines sunburst decoration and graining, accentuating both its structure and its lightness. A true hallmark of the brand, these textures interact with the 5N gold treatment, whose warmth and patina will evolve over time.
The introduction of the oscillating weight
The openworked oscillating weight made of tungsten reveals the balance wheel, supported by a bridge inspired by traditional watchmaking. The tailor-made balance wheel features four chronometric regulation screws for precise adjustment, ensuring long-term stability and accuracy.
Resulting from a singular design approach, the oscillating weight is equipped with a system of safety pins that protect the movement from major shocks, preserving the integrity of both bridges and internal components.
A “Paris – France” engraving
Through the sapphire caseback, the movement appears to float in space: the mirror-polished inner case reflects the movement to create striking depth. The « Paris – France » engraving on the movement’s bridge uses a typography inspired by vintage Parisian street signs.
Le Temps Retrouvé
April 1st 2025 / Launch
Trilobe unveils Le Temps Retrouvé,
a living mechanical sculpture
At first glance, nothing about this classically styled bust suggests a horological nature. But come closer, and the revelation unfolds: this is not just a sculpture, it is a riddle in motion.
A sculpture that breathes, a time that is felt
Every detail of this creation has been designed to capture the essence of time, as an emotion to be lived and felt.
Hearing : An organic heartbeat, a subtle rhythm that reminds you of your own vital cadence.
Touch : Appearing cold to the touch, this marble ceramic sculpture absorbsa gentle warmth in sync with its breath.
Sight : Its eyes turn, marking the minutes, while its temples slowly open, rhythmically signaling the hours in a silent dance.
Smell : An independent mechanism diffuses a custom-made fragrance into the air, like a secret breath.
Taste : As for taste, why not enjoy a madeleine! Each moment is a reminiscence, a sensory journey to the past and the future.
Time, but not as you imagined
This mechanical work of art does more than just tell the time, it reveals it, it breathes it, it sculpts it. It stands as a manifesto against the race for the second, it invites you to slow down, observe, and interact.
The hours are displayed through two sculpted rosettes unfolding, one petal per hour, marking the passage of time before closing with a breath at midday.
The minutes are read in the subtle movement of the eyes, which transforms the expression of the face.
As for the seconds, they are not counted. They are felt, carried by the sculpture’s breath.
A bespoke creation for you, with four hands
Le Temps Retrouvé is an intimate dialogue between you and Maison Trilobe.
In Paris, at our partner workshop, the visual artist Stéphane Gérard will sketch the face of your choosing, capturing every detail with precision before sculpting it.
Our watchmaking craftsmen will take on the challenge of rethinking the architecture of the movement so it can embrace its form, giving birth to an unparalleled complexity.
Finally, through a meeting with a Parisian perfumer, a unique fragrance will emerge, crafted for you, by you, that will escape into the air with the rhythm of your sculpture’s breath.
An unprecedented mechanical challenge
Halfway between an automaton and a clock, between sculpture and horology, Le Temps Retrouvé defies horological conventions.
The mechanism, conceived by our partner, Manufacture Masur, drew inspiration from the heritage of Parisian pendulettes, while transposing it into a futuristic vision. The 2050 components of the movement are manufactured and decorated by hand, sometimes taking more than a day to achieve the level of perfection required.
Le Temps Retrouvé is the result of four years of research and development, a somewhat wild collaborative effort, bringing together talents working over 3,000 hours of meticulous design. A project filled with emotions, where mechanics, free, living, and immersive, comes to life before our eyes.
Une Folle Journée, rhodium-plated editions
19 March 2025 / Launch
A luminous trio
joins the Une Folle Journée collection
With the rhodium-plated editions, Trilobe offers a new interpretation of its Une Folle Journée collection. Three new editions. An instantly recognizable design. A suspended mechanism. And a touch of color that makes all the difference.
A luminous mechanism
The bridges of the movement feature a rhodium-plated finish that enhances their architecture. Every detail is highlighted, each reflection deepening the dial. The tridimensionality of the design reveals itself from a new perspective. The eye plunges, explores, discovers. And rediscovers.
A touch of color. A new horizon
A distinctive new color joins the collection. A green, neither too classic, nor too extravagant. It captures the light and transforms it, plays with reflections, infuses new energy and highlights the boldness of Trilobe’s design. As if time itself were taking a new breath. This vibrant hue offers a fresh perspective on time, without disrupting its markers. The quiet confidence of those who know how to stand out without overdoing it.
A reaffirmed signature
This trio of rhodium-plated editions joins the Une Folle Journée collection, alongside the previous blue and black editions, featuring a movement with Anthradec finishes, as well as the Dune edition. Three new interpretations reaffirming Trilobe’s signature: a bold, free, and decidedly contemporary vision of time. Iconic, from the very first glance.
The X-Centric calibre, automatic signature movement
These three editions are equipped with the X-Centric calibre, an automatic movement designed and developed exclusively by Trilobe. Equipped with a micro-rotor, it beats at a 4 Hz frequency and offers a 48 hour power of reserve.
Nuit Fantastique Ombre and Lumière Editions
28 August 2024 / Launch
Trilobe unveils Nuit Fantastique
Ombre and Lumière Editions
A step aside in duality
Trilobe unveils its latest creations Nuit Fantastique, Ombre and Lumière. On these models, our grained dial is adorned with two complementary shades: black and white. The Ombre and Lumière editions pay tribute to the ambivalence of Trilobe’s design, being both audacious and timeless.
Inspired from Art Brut
With these new editions, Trilobe explores the Art Brut (Outsider Art) movement. Pioneer of this disruptive art outside traditional artistic boundaries, Jean Dubuffet liked to transgress norms, challenge classical representations and disrupt the culture of his time. The artist succeeded in creating tension and energy in his work through the interplay of juxtaposed colours, bringing dynamism to his compositions by “making light emerge from the shadow”.
The choice of difference
Trilobe expands its Nuit Fantastique collection with two contrasting editions, letting form and movement dominate. The visual tension generated by this black and white duality highlights the passage of time and emphasizes the Maison’s unique display embodied by its three iconic rings (Hours, Minutes, Seconds).
L'Heure Exquise Edition
25 March 2024 / Launch
Trilobe unveils the edition Les Matinaux
L'Heure Exquise
Trilobe is renewing itself by exploring for the first time the world of lyrical horological complications, with a timepiece adorned with a moon phase.
With this new edition, belonging to its first collection, “Les Matinaux”, Trilobe wants to push poetry to a higher level, by linking time with its most ancient element: the sky.
Encased in grade 5 titanium or 18k rose gold, this model comes in several variations with sand-blasted dials: Dune, Blue and Secret.
Limited series of 100 pieces
A waltz of celestial wonders, lyrical and enchanting
In this new temporal setting, an enchanting celestial door opens at the heart of the dial, within a polished and satin-finished flange. It reveals a ballet of stars dancing on a sapphire crystal to the rhythm of the seconds. Beneath this celestial waltz, two moons intertwine in a rhythmic you-and-me. They face each other in the night sky of the sunray disc, metamorphosing to the rhythm of this new X-Centric calibre.
The first complication of the Maison
A gear wheel with 59 cogs evokes the orbit of the Moon around the Earth, completing a full cycle of 29.5 days. Through this mechanism, the moons quietly reveal their age. For the first time, the moon phase is co-axially linked to the seconds wheel, under a dynamic and mesmerizing starry sky.
A tribute to our inaugural series
Trilobe draws from the classic aesthetic of its first collection, “Les Matinaux”, and replicates the dial structure identically in the edition “l’Heure Exquise”, featuring five elements, each with notable variations.
The hour and minute rings continue to run smoothly across the dial, but a slight tilt of the numerals accentuates the movement of the discs, highlighting the
passage of time. A single trilobe now serves as the indicator for the hours and minutes, while the seconds flow freely across the dial through a starry sapphire glass.
The reading of time
It is 9 hours and 55 minutes
The trilobe, a universal and timeless architectural motif, echoes the three pillars of time – Hours, Minutes and Seconds – and becomes the new indicator of time.
The elegant dial with its matt, sand-blasted finish is a real technical challenge. It defies symmetrical shapes, and is made up of five parts, three of which are in permanent rotation, in an anti-clockwise direction:
The largest ring for the hours;
The median for the minutes;
The starry sapphire glass rotating to the rythm of the seconds.
Nuit Fantastique Brume Edition
28 August 2023 / Launch
Trilobe unveils Nuit FantastiqueGuilloche Edition
This timepiece, a fine line between rupture and continuity, combines a contemporary design with traditional watchmaking know-how.
At the heart of this new creation, and for the first time on a Maison Trilobe model, is a guilloché technique known as “Barley Grain“, which is the aesthetic focus of the piece.
The design of this ancient motif has been reworked exclusively for this new edition, in alignement with Maison Trilobe eccentric displays.
When opposites meet : a creation marked by duality
The ambivalence of this piece is conveyed through the relief of the dial, which unites two traditional decorative watchmaking techniques. The Clous de Paris guilloche, with its incisive rectilinear pattern, contrasts with the spheres of the Grain d’Orge guilloche, formed by interlaced curves. The Grain d’Orge guilloche takes as its starting point the center of the minute window and highlights the Trilobe time display. Trilobe called on a guilloche craftsman to shape the intricate Grain d’Orge pattern on the fixed part of the dial.
A veil between light and dark
“On Nuit Fantastique Brume”, the fixed part of the dial and the hour ring feature an ambiguous shade between gray and brown that oscillates with light. Just like ”mist”, the English translation of the name of this model, the classic hue evokes infinite timelessness. Subtlety shines through the pigment, adding to the refinement of our Maison’s latest creation.
A new interpretation of time signed by Trilobe
Drawing inspiration from the minimalist design of the Nuit Fantastique collection, the elegant guilloche and grained dial is a major technical achievement that emphasizes the watch’s elegance. It defies the laws of symmetry; made up of four parts, three of them permanently rotate: the largest wheel 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.
A piece signed “Paris-France”
Nuit Fantastique Brume is equipped with the X-Centric calibre, an automatic movement designed and developed exclusively by Trilobe. For the first time, it bears the words “Paris – France“, a symbol of the development of our Maison, which recently inaugurated its own watchmaking workshop in Paris. In this workshop, our expert watchmakers carry out the final stages of manufacturing Trilobe timepieces. Each piece is entirely assembled and cased-up by a watchmaker, who works with rigor and precision to guarantee an impeccable finish, in line with the Maison’s high standards.
Une Folle Journée Dune Edition
24 March 2023 / Launch
Launch of Une Folle Journée Dune
for Watches & Wonders 2023
One year after the launch of its model Une Folle Journée, Trilobe offers a new interpretation, “Dune”, of its collection. For this new edition, the three iconic levitating rings, in permanent rotation, don a stormy grey dress.
The 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.
These three discs are highlighted by the singular colour of the bridges, for a creation both raw and delicate.
A tribute to Nuit Fantastique Dune
Emphasizing and sublimating the rings of time by a contrast of colours and materials, the bridges don their summer dress with a colour reminiscent of dune sand.
The surface treatment of the bridges reveals the presence of the X-Centric calibre and creates the illusion of sand settled on the face of the movement. The subtle tint of the bridges awakens under the light of the polished edges, like grains of sand in a desert lit by a radiant sun.
For fans of 1930s vintage chic, this Dune edition is the rebirth of a fiery, flamboyant hue whose elegance has already proven itself.
Designed for a titanium grade 5 or 18-carat rose gold case, the Dune edition of the collection Une Folle Journée pays tribute to the purity and sophistication of our model Nuit Fantastique Dune. On the rose gold model, the shade of the bridges skilfully marries the delicacy of the rose gold for a refined creation.
The X-Centric calibre, automatic movement and hallmark of the brand
The dial, open for the first time, offers a view on a technical motor assembly with 196 custom-made components and enables to savour the watchmaking
craftsmanship of an exceptional calibre.
Une Folle Journée Dune is equipped with the X-Centric calibre, an automatic movement designed and developed exclusively by Trilobe. Integrated into
the X-Centric calibre, the 6.49 mm thick micro-rotor movement combines finesse and technical performance.
Entirely revisited for the collection Une Folle Journée, the X-Centric calibre is taking shape around multi-tiered bridges and plates, whose sharp edges have been carefully polished by hand or with diamond tools to emphasize the microblasted treatment performed on their plane surfaces.
