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With Ulysse Nardin Guarantee card in Japanese stamped Takatsuki Seibu Dept., wooden presentation box with gilt plaque inscribed Limited Edition, outer packaging.
According to the Archives of Ulysse Nardin, this watch was sold on 17 March 1997.
The present watch is number 23 of a limited edition of only 25 examples of this model with "Treasure Boat Zheng He" cloisonné enamel dial, made in 1997 to pay tribute to the celebrated Chinese explorer.
Almost 100 years before Columbus discovered America, Zheng He, admiral in the Imperial Chinese navy, made seven voyages to Southeast Asia, India, and Africa to explore and trade. His first fleet was composed of 317 ships and 27,870 men, including sailors, clerks, interpreters, soldiers, artisans, medical men and meteorologists.
Treasure ships, a type of large wooden vessel (nine-masted, about 126.73 metres or 416 feet long and 51.84 metres or 170 feet wide, corresponding approximately to the size and shape of a football field), were used by the commander of the fleet and his deputies. These ships purportedly could carry as much as 1,500 tons and were at least twice as long as the largest European ships at the end of the sixteenth century and 40 longer and 65 wider than the largest wooden ships known to have been built at any time anywhere else.
As a comparison a modern ship of about 1,200 tons is 60 meters (200 ft) long, and the ships Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492 had a length of about 17 meters (55 ft) and could carry between 70 and 100 tons.
According to the Archives of Ulysse Nardin, this watch was sold on 17 March 1997.
The present watch is number 23 of a limited edition of only 25 examples of this model with "Treasure Boat Zheng He" cloisonné enamel dial, made in 1997 to pay tribute to the celebrated Chinese explorer.
Almost 100 years before Columbus discovered America, Zheng He, admiral in the Imperial Chinese navy, made seven voyages to Southeast Asia, India, and Africa to explore and trade. His first fleet was composed of 317 ships and 27,870 men, including sailors, clerks, interpreters, soldiers, artisans, medical men and meteorologists.
Treasure ships, a type of large wooden vessel (nine-masted, about 126.73 metres or 416 feet long and 51.84 metres or 170 feet wide, corresponding approximately to the size and shape of a football field), were used by the commander of the fleet and his deputies. These ships purportedly could carry as much as 1,500 tons and were at least twice as long as the largest European ships at the end of the sixteenth century and 40 longer and 65 wider than the largest wooden ships known to have been built at any time anywhere else.
As a comparison a modern ship of about 1,200 tons is 60 meters (200 ft) long, and the ships Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492 had a length of about 17 meters (55 ft) and could carry between 70 and 100 tons.