Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 63

ULYSSE NARDIN, REF. 446-22. YELLOW GOLD SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Ulysse Nardin, Split-Seconds Chronograph, No. 5, movement No.44.9.05, case No. 5, Ref. 446-22. Made circa 1996. Fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square and co-axial button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18k yellow gold Ulysse Nardin buckle.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, straight fluted lugs, button at 2 for start/stop, at 4 for return-to-zero and co-axial button on the winding crown for the spilt-seconds, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Cream with applied radial yellow gold Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds and tachometer scales. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 175 TJ, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel fl at balance spring.