SIGNED DF FOR DINO FALCONE, CASE STAMPED FD AND NUMBERED 2A, CIRCA 1980

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Falcone. An extremely rare 18K gold asymmetrical wristwatch with enamel dial
Signed DF for Dino Falcone, case stamped FD and numbered 2A, circa 1980
Circular gilt-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, white enamel dial, asymmetrical Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds, twisted blued steel moon-style hands, asymmetrical case, snap on back, twisted lugs, 18K gold asymmetrical Falcone buckle with inlaid white enamel initials DF, case stamped FD for Falcone Dino and numbered, dial stamped DF for Dino Falcone
35 mm. wide

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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 paranoiac-critical Camembert of time and space".

A similar watch as well as another model made by Falcone are illustrated in Die schönsten Armbanduhren vergangener Jahrzehnte by Giampiero Negretti/Franco Nencini, p. 46.

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