13,800 CHF
Minute-Repeating Split-Second Chronograph Ulysse Nardin, Locle, “Grand Prix Paris”, No. 7998. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K pink gold lever chronometer pocket watch with oval button split-seconds chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register and precision balance. Four-body, "bassine", polished, the back cover engraved with a foliate monogram, co-axial start/stop/return-to-zero chronograph button in the crown, splitseconds 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. Notes This watch is very high quality and in good condition. The balance is a cut bimetallic type with large gap in the laminae so that it is in effect a two-arm “Z” balance of chronometer type. There are no mean time adjustment screws and the gold temperature screws are grouped towards the center of the balance arms. This watch was evidently made as a precision watch, which is unusual in combination with repeating and chronograph because any complications can adversely affect the timekeeping of the watch.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
