Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 27

?Rattrapante? Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève, No. 0478, Ref. 511-52. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-second chronograph, registers, moon phases, date and a yellow gold-plated Ulysse Nardin buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, subsidiary ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, the day of the month, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 13???, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance- spring, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is to start or stop the split-seconds chronograph. Dial and case signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 14 mm.