The Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht 6319-305

The flying tourbillon, moon phase and tidal coefficient and power reserve indicator equipped Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht 6319-305 moon phase tourbillon watch is an incredible addition to the Ulysse Nardin fleet of limited edition, grand complication watches. Continuing the hyper-realistic nautical themed watches  the Swiss watchmaking manufacture established with the Ulysse Nardin Marine Grand Deck Tourbillon whose dial was dominated by a beautiful recreation of a classic ship’s decking against the blue sea in ultra fine marquetry, the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon 6319-305 watch invites us into the blue ocean as a modern-day Captain Nemo adventurer, with a timepiece celebrating the modern mega yacht, in a watch that offers not only hours and minutes hands, but all the information a modern mega yacht sailor might require, from the accuracy of the flying tourbillon complication to moon phase, power reserve and tidal coefficients indicators. The real joy of the Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon 6319-305 watch is just how Ulysse Nardin has integrated the grand complication UN-631 movement (developed with the Christophe Claret Manufacture) and the flying tourbillon, moon phase and tidal coefficient and power reserve indicators into a 44mm platinum and sapphire crystal watch case.

The Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht 6319-305 moon phase tourbillon offers a startling 3D (three dimensional) showcase from the masters of showmanship and innovative design in Swiss watches. In a market that includes fine watches available from brands such as  Bell and Ross, Girard Perregaux, Jaeger Lecoultre (with the Jaeger Lecoultre Master), Hublot (with the Hublot Big Bang), Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Richard Mille, the Kering Group, Omega, Zenith and Gucci, the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht Moon Phase Tourbillon 6319-305 offers something genuinely unique in every detail, and an excellent companion to other models in Ulysse Nardin’s own range of grand complication watches such as the Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur Limited Edition, the limited edition Ulysse Nardin Grand Deck Tourbillon Watch, and the Ulysse Nardin Freak Collection of watches.

As you would expect from a watch given the name the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht, the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon timepiece does indeed feature a mega yacht, with a mega yacht’s bow depicted on the watch dial in white gold cutting through a blue ocean of Grand Feu blue enamel, dominating the upper face of the dial side of the watch, while the beneath the sapphire crystal watch case back sits a view of the watch’s ‘engine room’, an exquisitely detailed view of the Ulysse Nardin & Christophe Claret Manufacture UN-631 movement. This is no vintage themed minute repeater of course, but a fine marine chronometer and every aspect of the layout of the watch dial reminds the wearer of this. Sitting above the mega yacht bow, correctly positioned at 12 o’clock as on every marine mega yacht timepiece, sits a beautifully miniaturized yacht’s anchor chain windlass, the working mechanical movement behind the miniature anchor and chain of the power reserve indicator which dominates the crown side of the watch, the Ulysse Nardin brand logo of the anchor itself and white power reserve indications contrasting very well against the blue Grand Feu enamel of the surrounding blue ‘ocean’ of the dial. Sitting opposite the anchor and chain of the power reserve indicator, at 9 o clock, the dial side face of the limited Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht tourbillon displays the moon phase indicator. A rotating 3D (three dimensional) globe, accurately detailed enough show individual moon craters, and the equal of any moon phase indicator from any other watch manufacturer, made up of two moon hemispheres, alternately PVD and rhodium plated, displaying the new moon and sunlit moon respectively.

Directly below the beautiful representation of the moon of the moon phase indicator, in its own smaller sapphire crystal window, the watch dial of the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht 6319-305 houses a tide height indicator, part of the tide coefficient apparatus, that includes  a further lateral display, once again with its own sapphire crystal, this time in the side of the watch. Setting the correct tidal coefficient for the Ulysse Nardin Watches Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht 6319-305 wearer’s specific location and moon phase (labelled as ‘TM’ on the watch case’s lateral display, is achieved via the watch crown, which alternatively can also be used to set the time on the hours and minutes hands (‘S’ setting on the watch lateral subdial), and of course, for manual winding of the watch (‘W’ setting on the watch lateral subdial). Sitting at 6 o’clock on the Grand Feu enamel dial of the Ulysse Nardin Watches limited edition Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon is the flying minute tourbillon itself. The Ulysse Nardin marine heritage and Ulysse Nardin brand anchor are evident here too, with the tourbillon bridge sculpted in ship’s propeller shape with a Ulysse Nardin anchor at its centre.  As you would expect from a Ulysse Nardin marine type watch, the finishing here is exemplary, with polished titanium and fine detailing throughout. This is of course, also spectacularly showcased to the back of the watch case.

For the Ulysse Nardin Watches limited edition Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon 6319-305, Ulysse Nardin have chosen to continue the nautical theme of this beautiful marine chronometer, adding a little Jules Verne type touch with the ‘engine room’ detailing to the Christophe Claret co-developed Caliber UN-631 movement, revealed in all its stunning glory by an anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal case back. Measuring some 37mm, this Haute Horlogerie manual winding movement is made up of more than 500 individual watch movement components, and with a running speed of some 21,600 vibrations per hour, manages to provide the Caliber UN-631 Ulysse Nardin Watches limited edition Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon timepiece, even with those complications, with a power reserve of 80 hours before the windlass on the watch’s dial side face lowers the Ulysse Nardin logo anchor to its deepest point on the power reserve indicator. All of the Haute Horlogerie detailing to the UN-631 calibre movement adds to the impression of viewing a mega yacht engine room, with tiny radiating and angled slotting and steam-punk gear train views. The Ulysse Nardin Watches limited edition Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht moon phase tourbillon, water resistant to a mega yacht sailing friendly depth of 50m, is available with its own integrated, blue alligator leather strap in very limited numbers of some 30 pieces only.