Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 64

ALAIN SILBERSTEIN KRONO 2 BT NOIR Alain Silberstein, France, "Kronomarine - Automatique", movement No. 286, No. 166/999. Made in a limited series of 999 examples in 1993. Fine and unusual, thick, self-winding, water-resistant, PVD-coated stainless steel Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases, night and day indication. Accompanied by fitted box, Chronometer certificate, certificate of warranty, instruction booklet.

Three-body, matte, revolving and graduated black bezel with raised red and white indexes, straight lugs, screwed down transparent case back, screwed-down triangular red winding crown, round yellow and red chronograph buttons, sapphire crystals. Black with luminous round indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the day and night indication, outer minute/second divisions, outermost graduation for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Multi-colored triangular and serpentine fancy hands. Cal. 7751, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decorations, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism, gold rotor.