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New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 164

Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 12165, especially made for a important Argentinian customer in 1905, with painted painted miniature on the cuvette.Very fine, 18K gold, keyless, split-seconds chronograph watch with 30-minute register.

C .four-body, bassine, back with champlevé blue, red and green enamel initials, polished, gold hinged cuvette fitted with enamel portrait of a young lady. D. white enamel, red Arabic numerals, 24-hour inner red Arabic ring (13-24), outer minute track, outermost chronograph ring with pulsometer scale (base 30), sunk minute register at 12 o'clock, subsidiary sunk seconds. "Spade" blued steel hands. M. (22'''), adjusted by Edouard Matthey Tissot, nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straght line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, visible split-seconds mechanism.Dial and case signed.Diam. 55 mm.