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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007
LOT 99
Platinum ?Watch with 10 Complications? Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Geneve, No. 17371, case No. 386392. Made in December 1936. Very fine and exceptional, minute-repeating, Art Deco, astronomical, platinum, keyless dress watch with split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute instantaneous register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Accompanied by an Ulysse Nardin box and a certificate.
HKD 1,200,000 - 1,400,000
USD 160,000 - 185,000 / EUR 120,000 - 140,000
Sold: HKD 1,743,000
C. Three-body, ?variée?, heavy, polished and brushed. D. Three-tone silver, black Arabic numerals and silver indexes, outer minute divisions with outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with 30-minute instantaneous register, subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and lunar calendar. Yellow gold ?épee? hands. M. 40 mm (18???), rhodium-plated, highly finished, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with 7 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman
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Grade: |
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Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 2 |
Very good |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Notes
The 10 Complications
- Perpetual Calendar
- Days of the month
- Days of the week
- Months
- Four-year cycle
- Moon phases and age
- Chronograph
- Split-seconds function
- Chronograph register
- Minute repeater
Ulysse Nardin The son of Leonard Nardin, Ulysse (1823-1876) was apprenticed to William Dubois, who was considered one of the foremost chronometer makers of this time. In 1846, he founded the famous firm in the canton of Neuchâtel. By 1957, the manufacture had won no fewer than 3884 Observatory of Neuchâtel prizes, including 1631 First Prizes. In 1861 the firm began to take part in the chronometry competitions held annually by the observatory. A few years later, Paul-David Nardin was the timer of the Tourbillon chronometers that were entered in the contests. In 1862, the firm won a Prize Medal at the Universal Exhibition in London as well as the only Gold Medal awarded at the International Adjusting Competition held in Geneva in 1876. That same year, Ulysse Nardin died and Paul-David succeeded his father as head of the firm. He was one of the first to work with Dr. Ch.-E. Guillaume in the development and use of his intégral balance, and of Elinvar as a balance spring material for monometallic balances. The Ulysse Nardin firm became the largest maker of marine chronometers in Switzerland. Paul-David Nardin was succeeded by two further generations of the family.