Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 19, 2012

LOT 269

ULYSSE NARDIN EARLY WRISTWATCH MONOPUSSIER YELLOW GOLD Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle & Geneva, Suisse, No. 17814, case No. 381645. Made circa 1910. Fine and unusual 18K yellow gold wristwatch with singlebutton chronograph and 30-minute register on an integrated 18K yellow gold bracelet with 18K yellow gold deployant clasp.

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, hinged cuvette, single lugs with hinged bows, crown with coaxial button at 12. D. White enamel, black Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions with fi ve-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, 30-minute register below 12 o'clock. Blued steel spade hands. M. 32 mm., rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Approx length 160 mm