Ulysse Nardin Manufacture’s 160th anniversary - Limited Edition
Six years into the new millennium and 23 years after he guided Ulysse Nardin into the upper echelons of high watch making, you would think that Rolf Schnyder would be content to rest. The idea of resting is simply not part of Schnyder’s genetic blueprint. His desire to reach new levels of performance, his relentless search for new answers to ancient questions and his perennial passion for advancement billow the creative sails of Ulysse Nardin and propel it through the deep sea of human imagination towards its destiny as one of horology’s brightest one.
While Ulysse Nardin already dazzled us with high complications that challenge our intellects and strike a resounding emotional chord, in 2006, on the year of the Manufacture’s 160th anniversary, the curtain lifts on Ulysse Nardin’s first totally in-house conceived and executed self-winding base caliber. Moreover, this movement, like a comet blazing across the night sky, points the way forward for Ulysse Nardin.
At first look, it is a self-winding caliber with big date in a double window with a quick set corrector in either direction, a small second on the second wheel and a fifty-hour power reserve.
Not all small seconds indicators are created equal. Visually, the Caliber 160 features a small seconds indicator similar to that used in the Marine Chronometers which initially garnered the Manufacture its repute. Yet this indicator also expresses the Manufacture’s focus on functional movement design. In the new movement, this small seconds indicator is ‘direct drive’. This translates into zero loss of precision for this indication. In addition, the Caliber 160 is a hack seconds movement, meaning that the balance wheel is stopped when the crown of the watch is pulled out to set the hands. This allows the hands to be set precisely without having to compensate for a continually-running seconds hand.
Limited Edition to 500 pieces.
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