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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 556

Ulysse Nardin, Locle,Suisse, No. 127952, case No. 714375, finished in December 1957.Exceptionally fine and rare, 18K gold, slim, hunting-cased keyless triple-complicated watch with minute-repeating, astronomical perpetual calendar with phases of the moon, and split-seconds chronograph with 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. Silver with applied radial gold indexes, outer minute and chronograph divisions with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Gold "Pointex" hands. M. 42 mm. (19'''), rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, gold train, 38 jewels, straight line leverscapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 51 mm.