Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 113

?1846 Marine Chronometer? Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Suisse, ?1846 Marine Chronometer?, No. 724. Officially Certified Chronometer, Ref. 263-66. Made in 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with date.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, ribbed bezel-edge, concave lugs, screwed-down case back engraved with a list of UN awards, sapphire crystal. D. White with large black Arabic numerals and luminous dots, oversized subsidiary seconds dial, "1846" in red, ?cyclops? aperture for the date at 6, up-and-down indication at 12. Blued steel luminous "spade" hands. M. Cal. UN 26, rhodium plated, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam.38 mm. Thickness: 11 mm.