Ulysse Nardin
Ulysse Nardin Maxi Marine Diver
I normally like traditional classic watches, but have always considered this watch, the Ulysse Nardin Maxi Marine Diver, to be something special. Check it out in its orange manifestation, in a 43mm stainless steel case. It is also COSC-certified as a chronometer. This watch will steal the show anywhere.
Specs: Movement: automatic UN caliber 26. Water-resistant to 300 meters, approimately 42 hours power reserve. Sapphire crystal. The strap in the one pictured here is rubber with titanium elements.
Ulysse Nardin Freak DIAMonSIL
Here is something from my favourite watchmakers. Out of BaselWorld 2007, the Ulysse Nardin Freak DIAMonSIL.
The unique feature of the Ulysse Nardin FREAK (launched 2001) was a silicium escapement. Ulysse Nardin then followed it up (in 2005) with the FREAK “DIAMOND HEART”, featuring an escapement made from diamonds.
The next step involved both diamond and silicium. Come 2007, and the Freak DIAMonSIL is here. The Freak DIAMonSIL in platinum is, according to Ulysse Nardin, “the first timepiece sporting a synthetic nanocrystal diamond escapement grown on a silicium raw part”.
DIAMonSIL is a new material, created by alloying silicium and diamond.
The Freak DIAMonSIL in platinum is available in Limited Edition. There are only 28 of them.
Movement: Caliber UN-200, 133/4”’; Dual Ulysse escapement in DIAMonSIL patent pending, 28 jewels, 28,800 V/h. Power reserve seven days.
Ulysse Nardin Astrolabium Galileo Galilei
The honour of being the first watch on this site goes to my old favourite, the Ulysse Nardin Astrolabium Galileo Galilei.
One of three watches in Ulysse Nardin’s “Trilogy of Time” series, the Astrolabium was introduced to the world at the 1985 Basle Watch Fair.
Four years later, the Astrolabium made it into the Guinness Book of Records. Its achievement was to be the first watch to offer certain astronomical features. It gives the position of the sun, moon and stars as defined by altitude and azimuth, as well as the zodiac sign at any given time. It also indicates solar and lunar elipse, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, moon-phase and such other things of great interest to astronomers.
