Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 234

Ulysse Nardin, ?Chronometre?, Locle, No. 11027. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, large, 18K gold and enamel keyless pocket watch with single button chronograph, progressive register and Guillaume balance. Accompanied by the original Ulysse Nardin fitted leather covered box and original Paul D. Nardin Certificate.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished and engine turned, the back cover decorated with a red, blue and purple enamel monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second track with Arabic 25 second numerals up to 300, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Black steel ?spade? hands. M. 19''', nickel plated, 21 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, the escape wheel and lever with gold end-plates, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, steel chronograph work on the backplate, all three operations activated by a single button in the crown. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.