The “KB2” clock (short for Kontwaz Bauhaus 2) is the fruit of a collaboration between the renowned watch designer Alain Silberstein, and the founder and director of the UTINAM Besançon clock manufacture, Philippe Lebru.
Immediately, you recognise the unmistakable Silberstein touch thanks to the primary colours and geometrical shapes visible on the clock. Then, after closer inspection, you notice the well-known UTINAM movement designed by the award-winning Philippe Lebru. A fine example of Nouvelle Horlogeriewith a “French Touch”!
Limited to 88 “KB2” clocks, exhibited and brought to sale, in the springtime at UTINAM gallery in Besançon, at the M.A.D. mechanical art galleries in Geneva, Dubai, Hong Kong and Taipei and via their e-shops. The M.A.D. galleries were founded in 2011 by Max Büsser, another forerunner in independent watchmaking who pioneered collaborations in the 2000s. These venues are by far the best showcases for this peerless clock, part clock sculpture and part kinetic art work. Moreover, other collaborations are announced for 2021.
The “KB2” comes from Besançon in Franche-Comté (France), in the Franco-Swiss territory of which the mechanical watchmaking and mechanical art heritage was registered in 2020 as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. Fully developed and crafted by the UTINAM manufacture, at the heart of the French watchmaking capital, this distinguished contemporary clock is one of the foremost standard-bearers for this prestigious international label. Historic.
Prices inc. VAT: KB2 Tall Clock € 27’400 – CHF 26’900 / KB2 Wall Clock € 22’000 – CHF 21’500
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