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Falcone. An extremely rare 18K pink gold asymmetrical wristwatch with enamel dial, after Dali

SIGNED DF FOR DINO FALCONE, CIRCA 1980

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Falcone. An extremely rare 18K pink gold asymmetrical wristwatch with enamel dial, after Dali
Signed DF for Dino Falcone, circa 1980
With circular gilt-finished jewelled lever movement, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, bent blued steel moon-style hands, subsidiary seconds with bent blued steel hand, in asymmetrical case with snap on back, bent horn lugs, together with an 18K pink gold asymmetrical Falcone buckle, case and dial signed DF for Dino Falcone
35 mm. wide

Lot Essay

The Falcone brothers Dino and Roberto, watchmakers in Milan, produced very few examples of these asymmetrical watches.

The models are designed after the 'limp' watch in Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory, 1931, exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Dali got his inspiration for the 'limp' watch from Camembert cheese and described it with the phrase "nothing else than the tender, extravagant and solitary paranoic-critical Camembert of time and space".

The asymmetrical model with eccentric minute dial and moonphase sold in this saleroom on 16 May 2000 for SFr. 76,375 (lot 158).

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