Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 175

Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, ?Planetarium Copernicus?, No. 290, Ref. 801-22. Produced in the 1990?s. Fine and unusual, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold, gentleman?s wristwatch with functions of the planetary cycle, days, months, zodiac signs and moon phases, with an 18K yellow gold Ulysse Nardin buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished, white gold hooded lugs, stepped rounded bezel with engraved Roman numerals for the 12 hours, transparent back, screwed bars, domed sapphire crystal divid-ed into 12 sections that start from the center (the Earth) and radiate outward in a spider design. D. six revolving satiné blue rings engraved with the names of five planets, each on a gold cartouche fixed with a central disc representing the Sun; the Earth disc fixed to one of the blue rings attached to the Moon which rotates around the Earth, outer gold ring engraved with the 12 signs of the zodiac and the months. ?Bâton? tritium-coated gold hands. M. Cal. UN 80, engraved, 33 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensat-ing flat balance-spring, white gold deco-rated and skeletonized rotor. Case signed. Diam. 38 mm.