Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 168

Ulysse Nardin Single Button Chronograph Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Swiss, ?Chronograph Monopusher - 175ème anniversaire?, No. 22/175, Ref. 380-22. Made in a limited edition of 175 pieces to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Ulysse Nardin firm (1823 to 1998). Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K white gold medical wristwatch with coaxial single-button chronograph, register, pulsometer and a white gold Ulysse Nardin buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and user's manual, guarantee card and certificate of limited edition.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 4 screws and embossed with a portrait of Ulysse Nardin, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer red pulsometer graduation. 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.