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Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 256

James C. Pellaton, made for Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 123232, case No. 647864, circa 1940.Exceptionally fine and important 18K gold, keyless, one-minute tourbillon regulator pocket chronometer, with original leather fitted box.

CHF 90,000 - 120,000

USD 55,000 - 75,000

Sold: CHF 141,000

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 44,8 mm (19 3/4'''), rhodiumed, Le Locle Technicum caliber with curved center bridge, narrow "fausses côtes" decoration, three-arm equidistant Pellaton carriage with lateral Swiss calibrated lever escapement, cut anibal-brass Guillaume balance, blued steel balance spring with Phillips outer terminal curve, index regulatorwith gold scale plate, the pins with micrometric screw adjustment, jeweled to the center, entire escapement with endstones.Signed by Pellaton on the movement, by Nardin on dial, movement and box, the case punched with histrademark.Diam. 53 mm.


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The watch with tourbillon carriage was an ultimate in precision timekeeping. During the 1920's and 1930's James Casar Pellaton was the most esteemed maker of tourbillon carriages, which he supplied to the most prestigious companies including Patek Philippe and, as this lot demonstrates, Ulysse Nardin.This watch is described and illustrated in "Le Tourbillon" by Reinhard Meis, les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990,p. 165.