Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Monaco, Jul 21, 2021
LOT 56
Ulysse Nardin
Two-day going marine chronometer with Observatory Bulletin, power reserve, special balance; mahogany and brass
Two-day going marine chronometer with Observatory Bulletin, power reserve, special balance; mahogany and brass
EUR 3,200 - 6,400
USD 3,800 - 7,600 / HKD 29,600 - 60,000
Mahogany and brass, two-day going, marine chronometer, with integral Guillaume balance, subsidiary seconds at 6 and one horological complication:
• 48-hour power-reserve indication (sector at 12 o’clock)
• 48-hour power-reserve indication (sector at 12 o’clock)
| Grading System | |
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle
Model with First Class Bulletin de marche from the Astronomical Observatory of Neuchâtel
Year Circa 1945
Movement No. 5 440
Case No. 5 440
Diameter 124 mm. (bezel)
Caliber 95 mm., full plate, pillars, gilded brass, fusee an chain, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, integral compensated brass-Invar Guillaume balance, free-sprung cylindrical hairspring, adjusted by the precision timer (“régleur”) Werner Dubois, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Dimensions 18.9 x 18.9 x 18.9 cm.
Signature Dial, case and movement
Accessories Winding-key
Notes
This type of marine chronometer is called by the Ulysse Nardin Manufacture “Chronomètre de marine grand format, 2 jours, calibre M. Gr. F. type Amirauté”. It was developed by Paul-David Nardin (1856-1920) around 1900 and was used for almost half a century.
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At the timing contest organised in 1945 at the Astronomical Observatory of Neuchâtel, this chronometer was awarded a First Class Bulletin.
That year (1945), the manufacture produced 432 marine chronometers. This was one of the years in which it produced the most.
Between 1876 and 1976, the manufacture produced 10 200 of them, of which 9 440 large format, 80 large format with an 8-day going movement and 680 small format.
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Bibliography
• Nardin, Raymond, & Fallet, Estelle, Les chronomètres de marine Ulysse Nardin, L’activité chronométrique de Paul-David Nardin entre 1876 et 1918, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Institut L’Homme et le Temps, 1994, pp. 65-66, 115-116, 127-128.
• Jornod, Gilbert, “Répertoire des bulletins de marche délivrés en chronométrie de marine à l’Observatoire de Neuchâtel entre 1860 et 1984”, in Fallet, Estelle, La Mesure du temps en mer et les horlogers suisses, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Institut L’Homme et le Temps, 1995, p. 453.
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