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Dino Falcone
A most probably unique, adventurous, and sculptural asymmetric yellow gold wristwatch with regulator-style asymmetric display, enamel dial, day and moonphase indications
估價
$100,000–200,000
製造商
Dino Falcone
年份
Circa 1985
材料
18K yellow gold
機芯
Manual, cal. 7001, 17 jewels
錶帶/ 錶鏈
Alligator
錶扣
18K yellow gold DF pin buckle
尺寸
37mm from 7 o’clock to 2 o’clock. 28.5mm width (measuring from crown) x 34mm length (at longest part).
簽名
Case, dial, and buckle signed
完整圖錄內容
GOOD TO KNOW
• Fresh-to-the-market
• Unique case shape and lugs in yellow gold with enamel dial
• Hours, minutes, seconds, day, and moon phases
Dino and Roberto Falcone were a Milanese father-and-son team of watch- and casemakers who produced a small number of highly unusual watches during the early 1980s. Their work is characterized by asymmetrical cases, unconventional displays and irregularly shaped details, with clear references to Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory. Created at a time when mechanical watchmaking was facing significant challenges from quartz technology, their approach was notably experimental and audacious.
Cased in 18K pink gold, it features a white enamel dial with an unusual arrangement of indications. The time is displayed in a regulator style with the hours read via a large subdial on the lower left side of the dial whilst the minutes are read via the central hand. The seconds are indicated on the lower right side, the day of the week in Italian on the top left and moonphases on the top right. Rather than following conventional geometry, each element has been given its own distinctive shape: the moon-phase aperture follows a gently curved, irregular outline, while the all the other indications are similarly unconventional, and the painted numerals further echo this individualistic design specific to Falcone watches.
The design extends to the case and hands. The lugs are characteristically twisted, giving the case a fluid appearance, while the blued-steel hands feature the distinctive bent form seen on other known Falcone watches. This particular example features a particularly large and architectural lower right lug not seen on other known Falcones. It allows the strap to be fitted straight, rather than cut at an angle, and effectively evokes the shape of a cow’s horn. A corrector for the moon phase is discreetly positioned in the case band. The watch is powered by a manually wound ETA calibre 7001, providing a relatively conventional mechanical foundation for an otherwise highly individualistic design.
Coming from the private collection of a well-known and renowned American watch collector, it has never been offered publicly and has been in his collection for over two decades. Now appearing for the first time at auction, it is the final offering of this year’s trio of Falcone watches, with perhaps the most audacious and unique design, and a not-to-be-missed example for the collector.
• Fresh-to-the-market
• Unique case shape and lugs in yellow gold with enamel dial
• Hours, minutes, seconds, day, and moon phases
Dino and Roberto Falcone were a Milanese father-and-son team of watch- and casemakers who produced a small number of highly unusual watches during the early 1980s. Their work is characterized by asymmetrical cases, unconventional displays and irregularly shaped details, with clear references to Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory. Created at a time when mechanical watchmaking was facing significant challenges from quartz technology, their approach was notably experimental and audacious.
Cased in 18K pink gold, it features a white enamel dial with an unusual arrangement of indications. The time is displayed in a regulator style with the hours read via a large subdial on the lower left side of the dial whilst the minutes are read via the central hand. The seconds are indicated on the lower right side, the day of the week in Italian on the top left and moonphases on the top right. Rather than following conventional geometry, each element has been given its own distinctive shape: the moon-phase aperture follows a gently curved, irregular outline, while the all the other indications are similarly unconventional, and the painted numerals further echo this individualistic design specific to Falcone watches.
The design extends to the case and hands. The lugs are characteristically twisted, giving the case a fluid appearance, while the blued-steel hands feature the distinctive bent form seen on other known Falcone watches. This particular example features a particularly large and architectural lower right lug not seen on other known Falcones. It allows the strap to be fitted straight, rather than cut at an angle, and effectively evokes the shape of a cow’s horn. A corrector for the moon phase is discreetly positioned in the case band. The watch is powered by a manually wound ETA calibre 7001, providing a relatively conventional mechanical foundation for an otherwise highly individualistic design.
Coming from the private collection of a well-known and renowned American watch collector, it has never been offered publicly and has been in his collection for over two decades. Now appearing for the first time at auction, it is the final offering of this year’s trio of Falcone watches, with perhaps the most audacious and unique design, and a not-to-be-missed example for the collector.