Alain Silberstein SS Bauhaus Krono ref LWO 5100 Ltd Ed circa 2000

A mint condition possibly unworn Alain Silberstein SS Bauhaus Krono LWO 5100 with heavy rice link bracelet with butterfly deployant clasp. Featuring a 40 x 43 thick cylinder shaped bead blasted case with sapphire crystal. With snow white dial with colorfully stylized hands referencing the Bauhaus design movement. Powered by self winding caliber 5100 movement with apertures for day and date, day and night, center 60 minutes recorder and 12 hour register. The screw down case back features sapphire crystal to reveal the customized  finishing and signatures of the plates. This example is # 736 of a limited edition of 999 pieces circa 2000. A “Klassic” from this innovative architect and industrial designer.

Alain Silverstein a French architect and industrial designer burst onto the luxury watch scene in the late 1980’s with whimsical graphic design and bold colors and shapes. He made wearing luxury watches playful and fun, and this writer, an enthusiast and early authorized dealer for the brand, credit Alain Silverstein with promoting and advancing the wearing of watches as fun. While not everyone is a fan of his somewhat comical approach, there is no questions that in the decades that have followed, watches as objets d’art, individuality, and prestige, has certainly not diminished, and I think we owe this phenomenon in no small part to these eccentric designs!