Jürgensen Chronograph Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 13095, Swiss. Made circa 1870. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and Jules Jürgensen patent hand-setting mechanism. | Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces. | Geneva, 13th November 2010
Jürgensen Chronograph Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 13095, Swiss. Made circa 1870. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and Jules Jürgensen patent hand-setting mechanism., CHF 5,800 - 7,200 USD 5,800 - 7,200 / EUR 4,300 - 5,300 C. Four body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned with polished borders, reeded band, chronograph button at 12 for start/stop and return-to-zero functions, special hand-setting by the folding bow, patented by Jules Jürgensen, 15 January, 1867. Gold cuvette, engine-turned on the border. D. White enamel with narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost red fifths of a second chronograph divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 19"', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, elongated counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, escape wheel and lever with gold caps for the jewels on the upper pivots, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm.Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.
Geneva, Nov 13, 2010
LOT 472 Jürgensen Chronograph Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 13095, Swiss. Made circa 1870. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and Jules Jürgensen patent hand-setting mechanism.
CHF 5,800 - 7,200 USD 5,800 - 7,200 / EUR 4,300 - 5,300
C. Four body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned with polished borders, reeded band, chronograph button at 12 for start/stop and return-to-zero functions, special hand-setting by the folding bow, patented by Jules Jürgensen, 15 January, 1867. Gold cuvette, engine-turned on the border. D. White enamel with narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost red fifths of a second chronograph divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 19"', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, elongated counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, escape wheel and lever with gold caps for the jewels on the upper pivots, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm.
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