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New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 315

Coaxial Single-Button Chronograph Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Swiss, Chronograph, case No. 134252. Made in the 1930s. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, sterling silver wristwatch with coaxial single-button chronograph and register.

C. Three-body, polished, central lugs, hinged case back. D. Matte silver with painted luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloche seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers. Blued steel skeleton hands. M. Cal. 12???, 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. 35 x 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm.