Falcone

A FINE AND RARE YELLOW GOLD ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH WITH DAY AND MOON-PHASES CIRCA 1985

A FINE AND RARE YELLOW GOLD ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH WITH DAY AND MOON-PHASES CIRCA 1985 yellow gold dimensions 39 x 34 mm , • manual winding lever movement • white enamel dial, stylised Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for day indication in Italian and constant seconds, distorted blued steel hands, aperture for moon-phases • 18k yellow gold satin-finished asymmetrical case, polished snap-on back, twisted lugs, cabochon-set winding crown • dial signed DF for Dino Falcone • with an 18k yellow buckle stamped DFDino Falcone, Estimate 14,000 - 18,000 GBP , Sold 22,500 GBP , A FINE AND RARE YELLOW GOLD ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH WITH DAY AND MOON-PHASES CIRCA 1985 yellow gold dimensions 39 x 34 mm , • manual winding lever movement • white enamel dial, stylised Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for day indication in Italian and constant seconds, distorted blued steel hands, aperture for moon-phases • 18k yellow gold satin-finished asymmetrical case, polished snap-on back, twisted lugs, cabochon-set winding crown • dial signed DF for Dino Falcone • with an 18k yellow buckle stamped DF , This very rare and unusual watch was made by the Milanese watch makers Dino and, his father, Robert Falcone. Manufacturing very few examples, the watches are inspired by the melting watch in Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory , 1931, exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.