Ulysse Nardin

These are my three blue watches. They are all blue, all big and bulky, all very unique, all marine or diver, all distinctive, all special in their own right and they all share something special with each other. Can you guess? Denes ...  

. . . I do love the UN Regatta. It's seldom seen around here (or anywhere). M4

It is very nice indeed, though has to go back for repair already. Out of the box the chrono zeroing function is faulty.

Really

This 1974 blue dial high beat UN says ’Hi’. Look forward to hearing from you more Denes. Best. Nomad. ...  

Lumen hands 🤔?

Thank you all for the warm greetings. I have been registered to this forum for several years now, so that is why I seem to be a newbie.

Think deeper. The answer I am looking for is deeper than the casing.

The thing that ties these three watches together is their DNA. They all share Lemania DNA, to be exact, Lemania 1340. The movement in the Omega Seamaster is Omega cal. 1040, it can be considered an almost identical twin of the Lemania 1340. The relationsh... 

This is a development of the UN-153 movement which is a completely in-house movement - I don’t believe there is anything to do with a Lemania ebauche being used in the Regatta?

I remember Marcus wrote an excellent write up regarding the Lemania-UN-Ebel relationship. He was adamant to make the case that the Lemania was ONLY the starting point and the end result UN 32/33 is in its own right an inhouse ebauche.

Sorry to report, but the UN Regatta had to go back. The chronograph function just was not cutting it. Inconsistent starts with jumping to 3-4 seconds and the same problem when when reversing from a "count down". Aside from these technical issues, the watc...