Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 119

"Chrono split Berlin 1907" Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Suisse, "Chrono split Berlin 1907", No. 171, Ref. 593-22. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Ulysse Nardin deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished, embossed case back secured by 5 screws and inscribed "Berlin 1907", rounded bezel, protected and screwed-down crown, stepped lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, off-center guilloché dial for the hours and minutes at 3, subsidiary mother-of-pearl dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation to 400 units. Blued steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.