Description

A mid 20th  Century Swiss centre seconds lever deck watch by Ulysse Nardin in a mahogany deck box.  Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel, the centre seconds transfer wheel above.  Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator. Club foot lever escapement, escape pivots with endstones.  Heavy compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Signed and numbered white enamel dial, centre seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Silver open face case, glassless bezel, plain screw back with serrated edge, Nardin’s makers mark.  Mahogany deck box, circular disc on the lid engraved with the Ministry arrow and “C^W Nardin” and the serial number of the watch.  Brass bowl with glazed screw bezel.   Inside the top lid a paper slip from F Smith & Son, Southampton indicating the watch was cleaned in May 1972.