Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 293

Alain Silberstein, Architecte Horloger, "The Day 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.

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. White with gold stars, a circle 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, "fausses 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 aprofession is true happiness.")Diam. 38 mm.