{"title":"Ulysse Nardin (Hero)","description":"Auto-collection powering the homepage hero (the 4 Ulysse Nardin arrivals). Not shown in navigation.","products":[{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-silver-split-seconds-observatory-chronometer-neuchatel-1937","title":"Silver Split-Seconds Chronometer, Neuchâtel Trials, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA documented 1937 Neuchatel Observatory competition watch: a sterling silver Ulysse Nardin split-seconds chronograph with a Guillaume balance, still running and splitting exactly as it should.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most compact of the observatory pieces in this collection, and the one in silver: an open-face split-seconds chronograph of 54.7mm, entered by Ulysse Nardin in the 1937 pocket-chronometer trials at Neuchâtel. The certificate extract accompanies it and records an official rating of +1.52 seconds per day: a hand-made mechanism, carrying a second full complication, holding to within a second and a half a day under observatory examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white enamel in excellent order, signed Ulysse Nardin, Locle \u0026amp; Genève and marked Chronomètre, with bold Breguet numerals, blued steel Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, a thirty-minute register at twelve and constant seconds at six carrying the movement number. Two centre hands run together, one of them lacquered oxblood red; press the button and one stops to take a split while the other carries on, then flies back to rejoin it. Both the chronograph and the split work correctly, and the watch winds, sets and runs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sterling silver case is Ulysse Nardin's own, numbered, and it wears its age openly: an even patina and the handling marks of nine decades, with nothing hidden and nothing polished away. The dial and the movement are the reason the watch exists, and both remain in the condition the trials demanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the four Neuchâtel chronometers in this collection, each has its own year, its own metal and its own result. This is 1937's, and the silver one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the trial entry and rating are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668138323,"sku":"PW-0091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/1_8f573872-8cea-400a-be00-cfbd05f1514c_Hero.jpg?v=1785249767"},{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-steel-split-seconds-observatory-chronometer-neuchatel-1953","title":"Split-Seconds Chronometer in Rare Stainless Steel, 1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA documented Neuchâtel Observatory split-seconds chronometer by Ulysse Nardin, cased in rare stainless steel. One of the hardest complications in watchmaking, offered with a factory extract that names its first owner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe best documented of the observatory pieces in this collection. A split-seconds chronograph of 65.2mm in stainless steel, entered by Ulysse Nardin in the 1953 pocket-chronometer trials at Neuchâtel, and traceable from the competition bench to its first owner: the factory extract records that on 20 April 1954 the watch was delivered to Rodolfo Oscar Linke, a dealer in Genoa, one of only five of this calibre supplied to him. Few vintage watches of any kind carry paperwork that specific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is the spectacle. Ulysse Nardin's 24-ligne split-seconds calibre fills the case almost to its edge, and it is finished to be looked at: skeletonised steel bridges in black polish, gilt wheels, gold jewel settings, the clamps of the split-seconds mechanism visible at work around their column wheel. The serial is engraved on the movement and, unusually, printed into the small-seconds register of the dial itself, so case, dial and movement declare their partnership openly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white grand feu enamel without a hairline, signed and marked Chronomètre, with bold black Breguet numerals, a thirty-minute recorder at twelve, running seconds at six carrying the serial, and a chapter divided to tenths of a second. The time is told by rose gold Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip; the two blued steel centre hands run, split and catch exactly as they should, and the watch winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes with its original red leather travel case, worn at the edges and intact, and with the factory extract that names its trial, its régleur and its first buyer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the 1953 submission and the delivery record are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668203859,"sku":"PW-0092","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/1_9619a2c2-7a45-4360-822b-668e80ef9f93_Hero.jpg?v=1785249285"},{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-steel-split-seconds-chronometer-first-prize-neuchatel-1933","title":"Split-Seconds Chronometer, First Prize at Neuchâtel, 1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA working split-seconds chronograph that competed at the Neuchatel Observatory and won a First Prize chronometer bulletin in 1933. Documented, and complete with its original box.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all the observatory watches in this collection, this is the one that won. In 1933 Ulysse Nardin entered movement 17731 in the pocket-chronometer trials at the Neuchâtel Observatory, where entries were rated for weeks, position by position and temperature by temperature, against astronomical time. It came away with the First Prize in the first class. The bulletin survives, the extract accompanies the watch, and the full result is set out in The Record below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes the piece remarkable is that the precision lives inside a complication. This is a split-seconds chronograph: two centre hands sweep together, one stops at a press to catch an intermediate time, and snaps forward to rejoin its partner at the next. Regulating an ordinary watch to prize standard is hard; regulating one carrying rattrapante works is the summit of the craft, and everything here still functions exactly as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch is built as an instrument. The case is polished steel in the full Goliath format, 65.9mm, with both covers closing firmly and the maker's cartouche inside. The dial is white grand feu enamel without a hairline or a chip: bold Breguet numerals under a blued steel poire hour hand, a thirty-minute recorder at twelve, small seconds at six carrying the movement number, and an outer track dividing each second into fifths, the scale the trials were read on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds, sets and runs correctly; the chronograph starts, stops and resets cleanly, and the split hand divides and catches exactly as designed. It is complete in its original Ulysse Nardin fitted box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUlysse Nardin sent watches to Neuchâtel for decades, and the house's standing rests on results like this one. Most surviving pieces of the type can claim the family resemblance; this one holds the prize itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the 1933 result and the observatory extract are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668236627,"sku":"PW-0093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/1_c6cf8172-1e60-49bc-ba74-c8af9a6e65b2_Hero.jpg?v=1785190322"},{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-steel-split-seconds-observatory-chronometer-neuchatel-1943","title":"Split-Seconds Chronometer, First Class at Neuchâtel, 1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA documented First-Class observatory chronometer from the 1943 Neuchatel trials, cased as a split-seconds chronograph and complete with its original box and results extract.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne watch, doing two difficult things at once: keeping observatory-grade time, and driving a split-seconds chronograph while it does so. Ulysse Nardin entered this movement, number 121026, in the 1943 pocket-chronometer trials at Neuchâtel and placed in the first class; the printed extract accompanies the watch and the result is set out in The Record below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the hand it is an instrument before it is anything else: a Goliath of 64.6mm in Staybrite stainless steel, hinged back, inner dust cover, a watch with the presence of a piece of laboratory equipment. The dial is white vitreous enamel, laid out for timing: bold Breguet numerals, violet-blued Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, a thirty-minute counter at twelve, running seconds at six, an outer fifth-of-a-second track, signed Ulysse Nardin, Chronomètre, Locle Suisse and numbered to match the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe split-seconds works from a large button on the case band: one centre hand stops to read an intermediate time while the other runs on, then the two snap back together. Start, stop and reset run through the crown pusher. Every function engages cleanly, and the watch winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne honest fault, named up front: a small chip to the crystal rim near the seven. The crystal is a replaceable part, and the watch behind it is unaffected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is supplied in its original Ulysse Nardin Locle-Genève fitted box together with the observatory extract, a pairing that rarely survives intact. Watches of this class were made in small numbers for a purpose that no longer exists, and the ones that can still show their results are the ones that matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the 1943 placing is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668531539,"sku":"PW-0094","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/ulysse-nardin-staybrite-stainless-steel-pocket-watch-1_hero_141fced3-3b11-4416-a656-dc8a162a71d1.jpg?v=1785179042"}],"url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/collections\/un-hero.oembed","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}