Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 208

Coaxial Single-Button Chronograph Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Swiss, Chronograph, No. 17467, case No. 385496. Made in the 1930s. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, ?Staybrite? stainless steel wristwatch with coaxial single-button chronograph, register and a stainless steel Ulysse Nardin buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, concave lugs. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers and blue 24-hour graduation. Blued steel double spade hands. M. Cal. 11???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, coaxial single-button on the winding crown to start, stop and return-to-zero. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 33 x 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of Various Owners