Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996
LOT 85
Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 657, October 1916. Sold to Favre & Brandt, Locle. Fine two day Marine chronometer, awarded a Bulletin of First Class for the timing contest organised at the Astronomical Observatory of Neuchatel in 1916.
CHF 4,500 - 55,000
Sold: CHF 5,060
C.Three body mahogany box with external brass handles, glazed upper section with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension. D. Frosted and silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and 48 hour Up-and-Down scale. Gilt brass "spade" hands. M. Brass, "spotted" decoration with turned pillars, fusee with chain, maintaining power, spring detent escapement, free sprung "integral" compensation Guillaume balance, blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond end-stone. Signed on the dial and movement. In very good condition, with copy of the Observatory records. Dial diam. 105 mm.
