Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 291

?Hooded Lugs? Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève, No. 27581, case No. 394659. Made in the 1930s. Fine, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with hooded lugs, olive button chronograph, register and pulsometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, hooded wire lugs, case back with engraved monogram ?JGO?, interior with engraved dedication inscription. D. Matte silvered with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations. Blued steel ?spade" hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.