
Ulysse Nardin age determination by year of manufacture models
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In a separate article we were already able to assign Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometers to their years of manufacture, but we have not yet been able to find a complete list by movement number.
Here are some watch models with year of manufacture / year of market launch for an approximate determination "not older than ...":
1904 Russo-Japanese War, supplying both parties with marine chronometers
1916 Development of a 13-ligne caliber (diameter 29mm) as a wristwatch movement
1925 Pilot's Chronograph "A:R:A: Navigacion", earliest crown pusher
1935 first split-second chronograph
1935 Chronograph "Black Dial", 30 min, telemeter and tachymeter scale
1945 two-pusher chronograph with specially designed dial, railway minute track and internal telemeter scale
1965 small full calendar chronograph with 36mm, 3 sub-dials
2013 Skeleton Tourbillon Manufacture Minute Tourbillon in skeleton construction without dial
2014 Marine Chronometre Manufacture, automatic, caliber 188, "DIAMonsil" escapement
2014 Music box "Stranger", plays "Stranger in the Night", mechanism visible on the front
2014 "Freak Blue Cruiser", escapement + balance spring made of silicon, time setting via bezel
2014 - "Imperial Blue" - Minute tourbillon with minute repeater and Westminster chime, bridges made of sapphire, only 20 pieces built
2014 GMT Perpetual with perpetual calendar placed above crown
2014 "Dual Time Manufacture" - escapement + balance spring made of silicon, 2 time zones
2014 Minute repeater "Jazz", Jaquemart figures movable on the dial, only 18 pieces produced
2014 "Classico Amerigo Vespucci" 18K gold, hand-crafted enamel dial
2014 Development and presentation of time zone caliber UN-334
Source: Heerbert James, "The Most Successful Wristwatches"