Ulysse Nardin

I have admired this and other UN watches with ta white enamel dials and blue numerals. To me this combination is so striking. A plus is it’s a great travel watch. What do you think? 

Sonata! 

But lacks that classic 1846 Marine Chronometer look.

A perpetual calendar with time zone adjustment that works on the calendar, back and forth.

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But the enamel dial makes this watch special and worth considering.

Did you check out how the crown functions? I don’t believe it ever pulls out. You set it to the appropriate setting, time, date, or winding by pushing in the crown and then turn the crown to dial in the appropriate setting. Pretty cool. I’ve never seen a watch function in this manner. 

The Classico Dual Time’s grand feu enamel dial by Donze Cadrans was what drew my eyes to it. 

On the wrist, the combination of the fresh, pure white of the enamel and the blue markers and displays came across as beautifully as one would expect.

 

Overall, though, I found the watch’s overall design a little too busy, a bit dated, and felt that the deeply-recessed date display and the dimensions of the pushers and crown to be unfortunate distractions from the dial's beauty.

 

The letters TDW on the fan shaped display at 3 stand for Time, Date, Wind.

Instead of pulling out the crown, you push the protruding button on the crown, like those on monopusher chronographs, in order to get to one of those positions before subsequently setting the time, date or winding the watch.  

 

TBH, I wasn’t convinced by the merits of that configuration, other than the novelty factor, and felt that it was outweighed by its demerits, such as the large crown or the visual crowding of the dial due to the TDW display.

 

Just my 2 cents, RDSChicago, ymmv of course ! : )

Given that this model is no longer in the current UN catalogue, it’s interesting that your AD had it in stock. Perhaps I’ll seek out the same white dial/blue numeral combination in a more simple layout. Thanks again for sharing your experience with this watch. Your opinions are valued and extremely helpful!

The manager at the AD told me that she'd personally sourced this reference for the shop, as she'd fallen in love with the enameled dial and wanted her customers/clients to share in her enthusiasm for it.

Enamel is always a big plus and it is a very convenient dual time watch. But they are operating within the constraints of the movement which they haven't changed in decades and so have to accomodate things like the second timezone at 9 that don't look great to my eyes. 

It’s a ref that took my attention.
Time change, time goes, priorities changed.
I do no big oversized watches anymore.
Light, 39 and smaller, and vintage are key to me.
Piaget, and some Jaeger LeCoultre, titanium Breitling new pluto, Enicar, Atlantic.

An amazing deal preowned too. The breguet is...ridiculously nice!!