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Throughout most of 2018, French \u201cspecial metals\u201d distributor STAINLESS and French watchmakers UTINAM Besan\u00e7on collaborated to make France\u2019s first automatic, mechanical 3D-printed watch. UTINAM Besan\u00e7on was established by clock maker Phillippe Lebru in 1993. STAINLESS was established in 1928 and distributes special metals to mainly the aerospace and medical industries, including metallic powder for 3D printing.<\/p>\n
The two companies had as many of the watch\u2019s parts as possible manufactured within the boundaries of the eastern French province of Franche-Comt\u00e9; the most significant of the few exceptions was having timing mechanism made in Japan. The watch\u2019s hands were made in a 100-year-old factory in\u00a0Morteau, and an anonymous craftsman of Besan\u00e7on made the bracelet out of real leather and sewed it entirely by hand.<\/p>\n
The watch\u2019s case was entirely 3D printed, using stainless steel 316L powder on a Renishaw AM250. (The Renshaw AM250 has since been superseded by the Renishaw AM400.) Renishaw of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England was established by David McMurtry and John Deer in 1973, when David McMurty invented a so-called \u201ctouch trigger probe\u201d to help coordinate-measuring machines properly measure the fuel pipes on a prototype jet engine. (John Deer is not to be confused with John Deere of John Deere tractors.) The case was 3D printed by apprentices of the\u00a0Besan\u00e7on training center at the\u00a0UIMM \u201cCreativ Lab\u201d.<\/p>\n
The watch was displayed by STAINLESS at September 2018\u2019s MICRONORA Exhibition in\u00a0Besan\u00e7on. By the end of 2018, it will be on sale at the\u00a0UTINAM Besancon boutique, opposite the Mus\u00e9e du Temps.<\/p>\n
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