Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 660

ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE REPEATER SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, "Grand Prix Paris", No. 12293. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold hunting cased pocket watch with oval button split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register.

Four-body, "bassine", frosted, button at 1 for the start/stop/return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, split-seconds button at 11. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds dial at 6, 30-minute register at 12. Black steel spade hands. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut two-arm bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.