Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 309

Split - Chrono Berlin 1907 Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Suisse, "Split - Chrono Berlin 1907," No. 195, Ref. No. 575-22. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant to 30 meters, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer and a gold-plated Ulysse Nardin buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, embossed case back secured by 5 screws and inscribed "Berlin 1907," rounded gold bezel, protected and screwed-down crown, stepped lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche 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 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation to 400 units. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes 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 13,5 mm.