$5,520
Alain Silberstein, France, "Bolido Krono Titanium". Produced in a limited edition of 250 examples in the late 1990's.Fine, rare and unusual, rectangular curved, water-resistant, titanium gentleman's wristwatch with fancy shaped button chronograph, registers and date. two-body, satiné, transparent case back with screws, mobile and fluted lugs, round,triangular and square crown and buttons with black enamel inlay, sapphire crystals. satiné grey with applied white dot markers, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, aperture for the date. "Fancy" black triangular hour and bâton minute hand, "Serpentine" yellow sweep seconds hand. Cal. FP 1185, satiné grey, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjsted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial and movement signed.Dim. 36 x 48 mm. Notes Alain SilbersteinAlain Silberstein, a born and bred Parisian, has an unusual background: trained as an interior architect and designer, he became a watch-architect when he created his own watchmaking firm in Besançon at the end of the 1980’s. At a time when the disappearance of mechanical watchmaking was considered inevitable, he joined the ranks of a very special group of Swiss makers who were behind the renaissance of the mechanical watch. In 1986 he received an award at the "Tokyo International Gift Show", anin 1988 he won a prize for his watch commemorating the French Revolution.In his works
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-05-08
