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Falcone. An extremely rare 18K gold asymmetrical jump hour wristwatch with phases of the moon and enamel dial

SIGNED DF FOR DINO FALCONE, CIRCA 1980

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Falcone. An extremely rare 18K gold asymmetrical jump hour wristwatch with phases of the moon and enamel dial
Signed DF for Dino Falcone, circa 1980
With circular gilt-finished jewelled lever movement, the white enamel dial with Arabic minute divisions and single bent blued steel moon-style hand, eccentric window for the Arabic jumping hours and eccentric aperture for phases of the moon, subsidiary seconds with bent blued steel hand, in asymmetrical case with snap on back, bent horn lugs, together with an 18K gold asymmetrical Falcone buckle, case and dial signed DF for Dino Falcone
34 mm. wide

Lot Essay

Dino and Robert Falcone, father and son and watchmakers in Milan, produced only few examples of unusual and asymmetrical watches, mostly in yellow gold and with or without complications.

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".

Two other examples of Falcone watches are illustrated in Die schönsten Armbanduhren vergangener Jahrzehnte by Giampiero Negretti/Franco Nencini, p. 46.

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