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Ulysse Nardin

Ref. 386-88

Monopusher Chronograph

A rare and interesting pink gold single-button chronograph wristwatch with guarantee card and presentation box

• With vintage aesthetics and dimensions, the 37mm pink gold Ulysse Nardin 386-88 is a small but mighty single-button chronograph.

• The caliber UN-38, based on the Techniques Horlogères Appliquées (THA)-designed caliber 45MC found in the Cartier Tortue Monopoussoir, was designed by a young François-Paul Journe, alongside Denis Flagolet and Vianney Halter.

• The dial is a crisp white, with elegant contrasting black Breguet numerals referencing the earliest chronograph wristwatches.

• From a prominent collector of independent wristwatches, please see lot 20 for the white gold variant of this timepiece.

Ulysse Nardin

Swiss | 1846

Founded in 1846 in Le Locle, Switzerland, Ulysse Nardin is a widely acclaimed Swiss watch manufacturer that earned recognition for its precision chronometers during the early to mid-twentieth century. Ulysse Nardin himself was a trained watchmaker under the guidance of his father, Leonard-Frederic Nardin, as well as master watchmakers Frederic William Dubois and Louis Jean Richard-dit-Bressel. Collectors in particular seek this brand's oversized vintage chronograph wristwatches, including the reference 7536-2.

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