Ulysse Nardin Locle Suisse Split-Seconds Rattrapante Navy Chronograph Pocket Watch Fired Enamel Dial Antique Gun Metal Swiss Made 1901

Ulysse Nardin Locle Suisse Split-Seconds Rattrapante Navy Chronograph Pocket Watch Fired Enamel Dial Antique Gun Metal Swiss Made
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Ulysse Nardin Locle Suisse — Split-Seconds Rattrapante Chronograph Pocket Watch, Fired Enamel Dial, 15J Adjusted — Marine Chronometer Maker (c. 1901)
LISTING:
From Ulysse Nardin of Le Locle — the house that earned its legend supplying precision marine chronometers to the world's navies, taking more observatory accuracy prizes than any rival. This is the watch that shows off everything that reputation was built on: a split-seconds (rattrapante) chronograph, a complication that sits beside the minute repeater at the very summit of mechanical watchmaking.
How it works — and it all works:
At rest, two slender chronograph hands lie perfectly stacked at the center, reading as one. Press to start and they sweep together as a single hand. Trigger the split, and the second hand freezes in place to let you read an intermediate or lap time — while its twin keeps racing on. Release, and the stopped hand snaps instantly forward to catch its partner, the two reunited mid-flight as if they had never parted. It is mechanical theater: a column wheel marshals the chronograph, while a pair of tiny steel pincers clamps and frees the rattrapante wheel on command. The 30-minute totalizer at 12 tallies elapsed minutes; the running seconds keep time at 6; an outer 1/5-second scale lets the eye split a second five ways.
This example is fully functioning, recently serviced — start, stop, reset, and the all-important split-and-catch all crisp and correct.
Fired white enamel dial, signed ULYSSE NARDIN / LOCLE SUISSE — clean and intact, no cracks
Layout: 30-min register at 12, running seconds at 6, twin central split-seconds hands, outer 1/5-sec timing track
Movement signed ULYSSE NARDIN SWISS, 15 jewels, adjusted to 2 positions, column-wheel chronograph with split-seconds clamp work, serial 204959
Chronograph commanded from the crown
Gunmetal open-face case, hinged back, Swiss case-maker mark + no. 605802 signed ULYSSE NARDIN
Era: circa 1901
Condition: Fully working — chronograph and split-seconds both functioning; serviced
A genuine, running Ulysse Nardin rattrapante with crisp enamel — antique split-seconds chronographs rarely surface intact, and rarer still actually working.
In Great Working Condition, Keep Very Accurate Time. Just recently was serviced.
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