Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 262

Alain Silberstein, Architecte Horloger, "Nomade Tourbillon", No. 1/1. Produced in only one example as a "Pièce Unique" in 1995. Very fine and very rare, highly unusual, skeletonized, water-resistant to 50 m., 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 "bâton" blue minute hand. M. Cal. 8701, skeletonized black bridges, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms, 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.