D'après Salvador DALI (1904-1989), "DALI WATCH", vers 1980.

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D'après Salvador DALI (1904-1989), "DALI WATCH", vers 1980.
After Salvador DALI (1904-1989), "DALI WATCH", circa 1980. Wristwatch in pink gold on yellow gold with the iconography of the of the Molle watch. Champagne dial, mounted with a large smoked glass cabochon concealing a watch face in the upper part. An electromechanical movement (to be revised). Rare and exceptional lady's jewelry watch in yellow and pink gold 750. The bracelet is finely chiseled, matted and structured like an "elephant skin", enhanced by numerous applied coral branches in pink gold. Asymmetrical yellow and pink gold "soft" bezel, large glass cabochon engraved with "Dali watch" on the back, soft hands and black painted Arabic numerals. Our model is equipped with a real champagne colored dial and black painted wire hands. Pink gold crown in the shape of a starfish. One-piece yellow gold caseback, signed Salvador Dali, with the mention "Dali watch" and our model is numbered 6/6. Mechanical hand-wound movement, calibre A.S1677 (to be revised). In order to have a reading of the dial hidden under the cabochon, a Daliesque push-button "Woman without face", allows to light the dial thanks to a diode which is integrated into the support of the movement and functioning with a litium battery. Opening of the bracelet by a ratchet clasp. Gross weight: 148 g (at control charge). Dimensions: 65 x 62 mm. NOTES: We find in this rare and exceptional gold proof only made to 6 copies, all the iconography of the soft watch of Dali and its surrealist spirit. This Dali Watch, of an incredible quality of realization becomes even more surrealist by the fact that it is equipped with a dial and a movement. The play of materials, the curves and counter-curves are in the image of the preparatory studies and drawings made by Salvador Dali, giving him the desire for this superb creation of soft watch, a key subject in his surrealist repertoire. Three plates of documentation on the tests and the studies carried out between 1975 and 1977 by Salvador Dali and Enrique Sabater, as well as a plate with the caligraphic tests which one finds on the back of box of our soft watch and its cabochon are joined there. A model of bracelet "montre molle" is to be brought closer to our model and was exposed at the time of the retrospective of the artist in Japan in 1982 and illustrated in the catalogue raisonnée of the artist under the number 76, as well as two preparatory plates n° 76-5. "Catalogue raisonnée, Edition Art Life Ltd, circa 1982". Provenance: This copy was given to the present owner by Enrique Sabater.
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