Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 202

"Nomade Tourbillon" Alain Silberstein, Architecte Horloger, "Nomade Tourbillon", No. 1/1. Made as a "Pièce Unique" in 1995. Very fine, unique, highly unusual, skeletonized, water-resistant, stainless steel and diamond pendant watch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and a leather cord. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, polished, transparent case back with 6 screws, star-shaped crown with white enamel inlay, case band set with 252 round diamonds (total 2.11 carats), anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Transparent, off-center transparent ring dial for the hours and minutes at 9, the visible tourbillon cage at 3 with "S"-shaped steel bridge. "Fancy" red triangular hour and "baton" blue minute hand. M. Cal. 8701, skeletonized black bridges, 21 jewels, one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms to the cage, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial and movement signed, movement also engraved "Le vrai bonheur est d'avoir sa passion pour métier" (To have one's passion as a profession is true happiness). Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 10 mm.