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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 175

?Portrait of a Lady? Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 12165. Especially made for an important Argentinian customer in 1905. Very fine, 18K gold, keyless, split-seconds chronograph pocket watch, with instantaneous 30-minute register, pulsometer and painted on enamel miniature of a young lady on the cuvette. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, back with champlevé blue, red and green enamel initials. Hinged gold cuvette with an enamel portrait of a young lady. D. White enamel, red Arabic numerals, 24-hour inner red Arabic ring (13-24), outer minute track, outermost chronograph ring with pulsometer scale graduated for 30 pulsations, instantaneous 30-minute register at 12 o'clock, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. (22'''), adjusted by Edouard Matthey Tissot, nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator, visible split-seconds mechanism. Dial and case signed. Diam. 55 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector