Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 182

Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 201170, case No. 347536. Produced in the early 1900s.Very fine, keyless, silver and pink gold split-seconds chronograph watch with instantaneous 30-minute register.

C. four-body, "demi-bassine", solid, polished, pink gold pendant, crown and pushers, silver hinged cuvette.D. white enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, sunk minute register at 12, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 45 mm. (20'''), rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 22 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, LeCoultre's patented instantaneous chronograph mechanism (Swiss patet No. 34029 of July 8, 1905).Dial, case and movement signed. Cuvette also signed ?H. Berthoud. Genève?.Diam. 51 mm.