10,625 CHF
ULYSSE NARDIN MINUTE REPEATER – NIELLOED GOLD CASE COMMEMORATING OTTO VON BISMARCK AS PRUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO PARIS Ulysse Nardin, Locle, movement No. 11861. Made circa 1910. Fine and elegant, thin, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold and niello hunting cased keyless dress watch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, both covers nielloed with a geometric foliate design, the interior oft he back cover with applied gold plaque engraved `Otto v. Bismarck, Herzog v. Lauenburg, Gestander in Paris, 1862`. Hinged glazed gold-rimmed cuvette to view the movement. Matte gold with black champleve Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, engine-turned center. Black spade hands. 17 ½’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 50 mm. Notes Otto von Bismarck, Herzog (Duke) of Lauenburg (1815-1898) became Prussian Ambassador tot he court of Napoleon III in Paris in May 1862. The present watch unquestionably dates from the opening years of the 20th century and therefore its connection with that event is uncertain
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
