Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 416

Ulysse Nardin Split-Seconds Deck Chronometer Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Chronometer, No. 127927, from a series of 402. Sold on April 11, 1956. Fine and rare, large silver keyless pocket lever chronometer with split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Accompanied by an Ulysse Nardin fitted deck box and Bulletin de Marche dated July 1982.

C. Three-body, ?bassine et filets?, polished, transparent case back, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and between 10 and 11 for the split-seconds. D. Matte silver with painted Paris numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five minute/second numerals, extreme outer chronograph ring divided into 1/5th and 1/10th of a second, subsidiary seconds and 30- minute register. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 22''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, fast beating straight line lever escapement, glucydur balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 65 mm. Thickness 22 mm.