1,743,000 HKD
Platinum “Watch with 10 Complications” Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Geneve, No. 17371, case No. 386392. Made in December 1936. Very fine and exceptional, minute-repeating, Art Deco, astronomical, platinum, keyless dress watch with split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute instantaneous register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Accompanied by an Ulysse Nardin box and a certificate. Three-body, “variée”, heavy, polished and brushed. Three-tone silver, black Arabic numerals and silver indexes, outer minute divisions with outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with 30-minute instantaneous register, subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and lunar calendar. Yellow gold “épee” hands. 40 mm (18’’’), rhodium-plated, highly finished, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with 7 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman Notes Such complicated watches by Ulysse Nardin are very rare and were made in a similar style to those of Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet at the same period. The present watch is particularly desirable being in a platinum case. The 10 Complications - Perpetual Calendar - Days of the month - Days of the week - Month
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
