Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 82

Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève,"Cronógrafo Medical", No. 16764, case No. 336544. Produced in the early 1900s. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with oval button chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register and pulsometer.

C. Four-body,"bassine", solid, polished, cover engraved with monogram, engine-turned case back, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, outermost pulsometer graduation to 30 pulsations, subsidiary sunk seconds dial at 6, sunk minute register at 12. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 21''', rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" and ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balanceblued steel Breguet balance spring,"swan-neck" micrometer regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 58 mm.