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A GOLD AUTOMATIC ASTROLABIUM WRISTWATCH WITH 24 HOURS, Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève, 'GALILEO GALILEI', no.104, CIRCA 1990
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Description
- Ulysse Nardin, Locle & Genève
- diameter 40mm
18k, gilt lever movement, the bridges engraved with scrolls, glucydur balance, gold rotor further engraved with scrolls, tri-color dial with planispherium ecliptic, sun and moon hands, bezel engraved with Roman numerals and Arabic numerals for 24 hours, molded circular case, case, dial and movement signed, with 18k gold Ulysse Nardin buckle.
Catalogue Note
The Ulysse Nardin 'Galileo Galilei' represents a complex wristwatch that has been cited in The Guiness Book of World Records and featured on the cover of one edition. The watch indicates the positions of the sun, moon and stars at any given time as seen from Earth. Furthermore, this wristwatch tells the sunrise and sunset, dawn and dusk, moon phases, moonrise and moonset, eclipses of the sun and moon, the month, the day and the date. All of these functions can be activated through the single crown.