Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996

LOT 136

Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 122113, case No. 610587, April 1942. Very fine and important 18K gold, keyless pocket chronometer with one minute tourbillon regulator.

CHF 100,000 - 120,000

Sold: CHF 108,000

C. Four body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19"', rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, Pellaton calibre, 19 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel balance spring with terminal curve. One minute tourbillon regulator, the polished steel Pellaton type carriage with three equidistant arms made by James C. Pellaton. Signed on the dial, case and movement. In very good condition. Diam. 53 mm.


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A similar watch is described and illustrated by R. Meis in Das Tourbillon, pp. 45, 50 and 165.