Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 203

"Nomade Tourbillon" Alain Silberstein, Architecte Horloger, "Nomade Tourbillon", No. 02. Made in 1994. Very fine, rare and unusual, skeletonized, water-resistant, diamond-set stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and a stainless steel Alain Silberstein link bracelet, partially set with a total of 160 round diamonds. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, polished, transparent case back with 8 screws, star-shaped crown with white enamel inlay, case band set with 160 round diamonds, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Transparent, off-center transparent ring dial for the hours and minutes at 12, the visible tourbillon cage at 6 with "S"-shaped steel bridge. "Fancy" red triangular hour and "baton" blue minute hand. M. Cal. 8701, skeletonized silver bridges, 21 jewels, one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms to the cage, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating 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. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.