Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 538

ULYSSE NARDIN REF. 666-88 SONATA DUAL TIME ALARM PINK GOLD Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle, Swiss, Sonata Dual Time, No. 338, Ref. 666-88. Made circa 2006. Production of this reference started in 2003. Very fine, rare and unusual, large, center seconds, two crowns, self-winding, water-resistant, two time zone, 18K pink gold wristwatch with 24-hour alarm function, alarm countdown, large date and an 18K pink gold Ulysse Nardin deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, undated certificate card and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted stepped lugs, protected blue enamel crown with UN logo, transparent case back with 6 screws, push button at 4 to adjust the hour hand backward and at 8 to adjust it forward, crown at 9 for the on/off alarm function and for the date setting. Silvered, partial vertical fausses cotes decoration and partial plain sector, outermost applied yellow gold dart indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the 24-hour alarm countdown, the alarm setting, the 24-hour second time zone, apertures for the large 2-digit date and the alarm's centrifugal governor under a blued steel bridge. Luminous blued steel fancy hands, red hand to indicate the alarm function on or off. Cal. UN-67, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 109 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, alarm repeating on gong, automatic adjustment of alarm function and alarm countdown when a time zone is changed, special patented mechanism to adjust the hour hand backward and forward. Dial, case and movement signed.