Presentation of the prototype of the new Collab UTINAM Lebru x Silberstein at Head Geneva TimeToWatches
The installation « Une Mémoire du Lieu » (The Site’s Heritage) installation retraces over 125 years of the history of the Saline Royale, an architectural masterpiece built by the visionary Claude Nicolas Ledoux and included on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2009. When Hubert Tassy, Director of the Saline Royale d’Arc-et-Senans, considered the time aspect of […]
To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Aristide Denfer Rochereau, known as “the Lion of Belfort”, UTINAM has designed an extraordinary installation featuring a remarkable work of mechanical art. Combining the precision of the clockmaker’s art with the beauty of nature, “The March of the Lion” will take place next year in the heart […]
Following a collaboration between two key areas of contemporary French clockmaking, UTINAM is proud to present the Kontwaz Bauhaus 2. The Kontwaz Bauhaus 2 clock pairs the singularity of Philippe Lebru’s mechanical artworks with Bauhaus inspirations and Alain Silberstein’s signature colours. This unique UTINAM creation, designed and made in Besançon and co-signed by the […]
From the 16th to the 20th of May 2022, Pablito Zago came to stay at 119 Grande rue in Besançon, at the UTINAM manufacture, for the launch of the first pieces from the collection signed Philippe Lebru X Pablito Zago. More than just a meeting of artists, this collaboration cemented the relationship between two different […]
“Besançon owes its industrial development largely to its watchmaking school, l’École d’Horlogerie“ Jean Minjoz, mayor of Besançon, during Charles de Gaulle’s visit to the school in 1962. In 2023, to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the École Nationale d’Horlogerie of Besançon, UTINAM will create a unique installation in the heart of the famous “Horlo” building, […]
For over 20 years, it has been a dream of Philippe Lebru and of his whole team to one day see a UTINAM mechanical artwork join the prestigious ranks of the brands selected by the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. It was therefore a huge honour to discover that the Kontwaz Bauhaus 2, signed Philippe […]
When in 1993, Philippe Lebru reawakened Besançon, the sleepy capital of watchmaking in the heart of the Jura, it was to play with the codes of traditional watchmaking and disrupt them. He wanted to create a new way of conceiving and experiencing the concept of time.
Clocks, watches, automatons… UTINAM’s mechanical and kinetic artworks offer a vision of time that goes beyond simple measurement: a vision of time as autonomous, independent, and free to repeat itself endlessly.
A vision of time that takes shape in multiple spaces, open to the world, intimate, individual or nomadic.
Time that comes to life through atypical creations, reconnecting watchmaking heritage with contemporary creation. A vision of time that is rich in opportunities and emotions for those who decide to seize it.
Philippe Lebru. Artist, creator, inventor, designer. Like UTINAM, Philippe Lebru defies all classification. His works evolve, revealing the porous borders of the worlds of creation, mechanical art devices, and contemporary watchmaking. The richness of his career on the fringes of traditional watchmaking has liberated him from the codes and dogma of traditional watchmaking.
A free thinker, Philippe Lebru relies on instinct to create his mechanical artworks which never cease to question our relationship with time and the living. Philippe Lebru lives in the city of Besançon, the capital of French watchmaking, where he decided to settle 30 years ago. By creating UTINAM, and by giving life to an award-winning* venture rich in meaning, creativity and innovation, Philippe Lebru asserts the fundamental role of the French watchmaking capital on the international scene.
*Grand Prix (all categories) at the Lépine competition in Paris and gold medal for clock-making at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.
Pop Up: Visionary, iconic, and hypnotic, the Pop-Up is an extraordinary mechanical artwork, featuring a visible mechanism and a balance wheel that beats the universal second.
Pop Up: Visionary, iconic, and hypnotic, the Pop-Up is an extraordinary mechanical artwork, featuring a visible mechanism and a balance wheel that beats the universal second.
Romantic, celestial and timeless, Hortense, Constence and Lala are distinguished by their elegant silhouettes and reveal for the first time the UTINAM pendulum movement with automatic counterbalance…
Romantic, celestial and timeless, Hortense, Constence and Lala are distinguished by their elegant silhouettes and reveal for the first time the UTINAM pendulum movement with automatic counterbalance…
When a selfwinding movement meets additive manufacturing, the result is the brute aspect of the metal and the original curves of Specimen.When a watch becomes disruptive technology…
The Quadripod surprises above all by its shape.
Neither round nor protruding, the selfwinding movement rests on four sheaths that reinforce its celestial dimension. When a watch becomes a UFO…
The Météorite presents a dial made from a meteorite fragment dating from over 4 billion years ago. With the “Snake Head” hallmark, the Météorite attests to the highest chronometric quality in addition to its celestial dimension. At the dawn of the watch there was stardust…
In view of the success encountered during the first LEBRU x SILBERSTEIN collaboration, the 2 watchmakers from Besançon have returned to the creative table to give birth to KAWAII, in the vein of Alain Silberstein and his efficient codes and the equally efficient patent. of the self-balancing movement by Philippe Lebru.
In view of the success encountered during the first LEBRU x SILBERSTEIN collaboration, the 2 watchmakers from Besançon have returned to the creative table to give birth to KAWAII, in the vein of Alain Silberstein and his efficient codes and the equally efficient patent. of the self-balancing movement by Philippe Lebru.
In view of the success encountered during the first LEBRU x SILBERSTEIN collaboration, the 2 watchmakers from Besançon have returned to the creative table to give birth to KAWAII, in the vein of Alain Silberstein and his efficient codes and the equally efficient patent. of the self-balancing movement by Philippe Lebru.
Clock UTINAM Besançon KB2 standing regulator Collaboration LEBRU X SILBERSTEIN, the clock KONTWAZ BAUHAUS 2 is edited in limited series of 88 numbered copies
Clock UTINAM Besançon KB2 Black standing regulator Collaboration LEBRU X SILBERSTEIN, the clock KONTWAZ BAUHAUS 2 is edited in limited series of 88 numbered copies
Clock UTINAM Besançon KB2 white standing regulator Collaboration LEBRU X SILBERSTEIN, the clock KONTWAZ BAUHAUS 2 is edited in limited series of 88 numbered copies
The POP UP signed Philippe Lebru x Pablito Zago marks the encounter between the world of Philippe Lebru and the one of the street artist. Radiant, vibrant and enigmatic: each of the twelve pieces is unique and numbered.
The Kontwas Bauhaus 2 clock combines the singularity of Philippe Lebru’s mechanical artworks with Bauhaus inspirations and Alain Silberstein’s signature colours. With its off-centre small seconds display, this unique UTINAM creation, designed and made in Besançon and co-signed by the two artists, is a showpiece for innovation.
The KB2 can be found at M.A.D. Gallery in Geneva, Dubai, Taipei, and Hong Kong and at the UTINAM stores in Besançon.
Clock height: 2 m
A hub of expertise and mechanical and horological talent, the Manufacture houses the production and assembly workshop and the design department. This is where the UTINAM creations envisioned by Philippe Lebru come to life.
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