Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 328

ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE REPEATER ? NIELLOED GOLD CASE COMMEMORATING OTTO VON BISMARCK AS PRUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO PARIS Ulysse Nardin, Locle, movement No. 11861. Made circa 1910. Fine and elegant, thin, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold and niello hunting cased keyless dress watch.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, both covers nielloed with a geometric foliate design, the interior oft he back cover with applied gold plaque engraved `Otto v. Bismarck, Herzog v. Lauenburg, Gestander in Paris, 1862`. Hinged glazed gold-rimmed cuvette to view the movement. D. Matte gold with black champleve Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, engine-turned center. Black spade hands. M. 17 ½???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 50 mm.