A major figure on the international art scene for more than six decades, Bernar Venet has developed a body of work grounded in a deliberately restrained formal vocabulary, lines, arcs, and angles, through which he explores the relationships between order and chance, determination and entropy. His practice investigates the ways forms evolve and reveal the forces that govern them.

Born in 1941 in Château-Arnoux, in the south of France, Venet distinguished himself from the early 1960s through a radical approach to sculpture. Following his first works in tar, he created Coal Pile in 1963, an artwork consisting of ten cubic meters of anthracite poured directly onto the floor. This seminal gesture marked a decisive break: form was no longer conceived as the result of composition, but as the consequence of a protocol in which matter, gravity, and chance actively participate in the creation of the work.

Since then, Bernar Venet has continually explored the tension between geometric rigor and unpredictability, developing an immediately recognizable sculptural language that has earned him international acclaim.

For this exclusive collaboration, Alto brings Bernar Venet's artistic universe into dialogue with its vision of contemporary watchmaking. Produced as a limited edition of ten pieces, this timepiece translates into horological form the fundamental principles that run throughout the artist's work: precision, formal tension, and the power of simplicity.