Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 117

?Two-day Marine Chronometer? Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 5922, circa 1945. Fine, small and unusual double-boxed mahogany two-day marine chronometer with winding indicator. Accompanied by the original transportation case.

C. Three-body, with brass handles, the glazed upper section with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension. D. Silvered with radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds and upand- down scale. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 65 mm, gilt brass full plate with baluster pillars secured by screws, 15 jewels, fusee with chain and Harrison maintaining power, spring detent escapement, set into an apperature in the back plate, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to temperatures with cylindrical weights and two mean time adjusting nuts, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curves, micrometer regulator, diamond endstone. Dial, movement and box signed. Dim: Bowl 87 mm. Box 19 x 20 x 20 cm.