Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, Nov 13, 2011

LOT 94

ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE-REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH WITH ORIGINAL BOX & PAPERS Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève, ?Chronomètre?, No. 15634. Made circa 1917. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold lever chronometer pocket watch with oval button chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Accompanied by the original Ulysse Nardin fitted wooden box, Certificate, Bulletin de Marche and service invoice.

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with chased monogram ?CO?, button for start/stop/return-to-zero of the chronograph at 12. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved presentation inscription. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions and concentric fi fths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic fi ve-second numerals, inner red 24-hour numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Black steel spade hands. M. Cal. 20''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, index regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.