Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 24, 2003

LOT 192

Alain Silberstein, Architecte Horloger, "The Night Tourbillon". Produced in only one example in 1996.Very fine, unique and highly unusual, brushed stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an Alain Silberstein brushed stainless steel bracelet and deployant clasp. Accompanied by a box and certificate.

C. two-body, polished and brushed, case back with 8 screws and engraved monogram, star-shaped crown with white enamel inlay, graduated revolving bezel set with applied dot, square and triangular indexes, sapphire crystal. D. black with white stars and a moon, dial for hours and minutes at 12, ellipse-shaped aperture for the tourbillon cage at 6 with "S"-shaped polished steel bridge over the tourbillon cage. "Fancy" red triangular hour and "Bâton" blue minute hand. M. Cal. 387, rhodium-plated, "ausses côtes" decoration, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial and movement signed. Movement also engraved "Le vrai bonheur est d'avoir sa passion pour métier "or To have one's passion as a profession is true happiness."Diam. 38 mm.