12,500 CHF
ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE REPEATER SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH Ulysse Nardin, Locle, Suisse, "Grand Prix Paris", No. 12293. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold hunting cased pocket watch with oval button split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Four-body, "bassine", frosted, button at 1 for the start/stop/return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, split-seconds button at 11. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds dial at 6, 30-minute register at 12. Black steel spade hands. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut two-arm bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 54 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
