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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 51

Minute-Repeating Split-Second Chronograph Ulysse Nardin, Locle, ?Grand Prix Paris?, No. 7998. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K pink gold lever chronometer pocket watch with oval button split-seconds chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register and precision balance.

CHF 12,000 - 16,000

USD 10,500 - 14,000

Sold: CHF 13,800

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, the back cover engraved with a foliate monogram, co-axial start/stop/return-to-zero chronograph button in the crown, splitseconds button at 11. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds dial at 6, 30-minute register at 12. Black steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, balance and escape wheel pivots with gold caps, cut two-arm bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and cuvette signed. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01-05

Good

HANDS Original

HANDS Luminous material reapplied

Notes

This watch is very high quality and in good condition. The balance is a cut bimetallic type with large gap in the laminae so that it is in effect a two-arm ?Z? balance of chronometer type. There are no mean time adjustment screws and the gold temperature screws are grouped towards the center of the balance arms. This watch was evidently made as a precision watch, which is unusual in combination with repeating and chronograph because any complications can adversely affect the timekeeping of the watch.