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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 503

Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Geneve, Suisse, Cronografo Medical, No. 202376, Ref. 37773, made especially for Dr. Pedro A. Vinent, circa 1915. Very fine and unique, extra large, 18K yellow gold doctor's wristwatch with olive-shaped single button split-second chronograph, register and pulsometer with leather strap and original 18K gold Ulysse Nardin buckle.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

C. four body, massive, polished, hinged back, gold cuvette bearing the dedication, mobile central wire lugs, ball-shaped winding-crown. D. white enamel with painted Breguet numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations. "Spade " blued steel hands. M. 19"' rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph and the olive-shaped pusher on the 2 is for the split-second functions. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 51 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 4

Fair
Movement: *4-5

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Poor
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

This chronograph, especially made for a South American doctor on his request, is unique because of the split-second functions on a pulsometer and because of its very large size. Doctor's watches, or pulse watches, were regularly produced at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sir John Floyer, a physician, is believed to have invented such watches around 1700.