Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 528

ULYSSE NARDIN, REF. 446-22. YELLOW GOLD SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Ulysse Nardin, Split-Seconds Chronograph, No. 20, movement No.44.9.20, case No. 020, Ref. 446-22. Sold in January, 1996. Fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square and co-axial button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer and a gold-plated Ulysse Nardin buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and Certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, straight fl uted lugs, button at 2 for start/stop, at 4 for return-to-zero and co-axial button on the winding crown for the spilt-seconds, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Cream with applied radial yellow gold Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds and tachometer scales. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 175 TJ, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeilde- perdrix decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel fl at balance spring. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.