Utinam Specimen 01

This is one of the first times that the tradition of watches with mechanical movement has ever been combined with the revolutionary technology of metallic 3D printing.

SPECIFICATIONS

REFERENCE

Specimen 01

YEAR

2020

COLLECTION

Numbered series at 264 pieces per color

SIZE

41 mm

THICKNESS

13 mm

MOVEMENT

Skeletonized Japanese automatic mechanism 11 ½, 24 jewels, frequency 28800 beats per hour, power reserve 42 hours

FUNCTIONS

Hour, minute and small second with counterweight, date at 3 o’clock

BRACELET/STRAP

Barénia calf skin, saddle stitching

WATERPROOFNESS

3 atm

PRICE

EUR 987

UTINAM Besançon - Philippe Lebru’s company - carefully selected the component manufacturers. The watch case was 3D printed in one piece by laser fusion additive manufacturing, using the equipment at the UIMM Besancon training centre (and their in-house Créativ Lab). By using this manufacturing process, the colour of the metal can be left as it is and complex curves can be formed directly without subsequent re-work. The watch hands were made in a one-hundred-year-old factory based in Morteau ; and the strap, hand stitched in handsome brown leather, is the work of a Besancon based artisan.

This is one of the first times that the tradition of watches with mechanical movement has ever been combined with the revolutionary technology of metallic 3D printing.

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