Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 224

No. 00 Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Swiss, ?Chronographe Monopoussoir 175ème anniversaire, No. 00/175, Ref. 386-22. Made in a limited edition of 175 pieces to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Ulysse Nardin firm in 1998. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with coaxial single-button chronograph, register, pulsometer and an 18K pink gold Ulysse Nardin buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 4 screws and embossed with a portrait of Ulysse Nardin, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer minute/1/5th seconds track, outermost red pulsometer scale. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. UN 38, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, the coaxial single button on the winding crown for start/ stop and return-to-zero. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 10 mm.