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LOT 255

Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse,No. 13499, production started in 1908, finished 1910, sold 1911.Very fine and important 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless astronomical minute-repeating pocket chronometer with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon, split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register, with special balance, accompanied by original page from the registers.

C. Four-body, "variée", solid, concave bezels, polished, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minutes and seconds divisions with five-minute red Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with minute register and subsidiary seconds with phases of the moon and its age aperture. M. By Victorin Elisée Piguet, 46 mm (20'''), rhodiumed, "fausses côtes" decration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, chronograph and split-seconds mechanism set on the back plate, repeating on gongs by a slide in the band.Signed on dial and movement, case punched with the maker's trademark.Diam. 61 mm.