414,000 HKD
Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, No. 127952, case No. 714375, circa 1957. Very fine and important 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless, triple-complicated slim astronomical minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute register, perpetual calendar, and phases of the moon. Five-body, “bassine”, polished, gold hinged cuvette. Silver, gold indexes, outer minute divisions with outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Gold “Feuille” hands. 44 mm (20’’’), rhodium-plated, “fausses-côtes” decoration, 46 jewels, 7 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
