Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 49

ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE-REPEATING Ulysse Nardin, Locle et Geneve, ?Répétition à Minutes?, case No. 30003. Made for the Russian market, circa 1910. Fine and rare, minute-repeating, hunting cased, keyless, 14K pink gold pocket watch with a long gold chain.

C. Four-body, "bassine et fi lets", engine-turned with polished and reeded borders, the front cover engraved with an art-nouveau monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut two-arm bimetallic compensation balance with temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.