Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 148

JULES JURGENSEN POCKET WATCH ENAMEL AND YELLOW GOLD Jules Jurgensen., Swiss, No. 16879. Made in the 1930's. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, sapphires and enamel keyless dress pocket watch.

CHF 3,000 - 5,000

HKD 24,000 - 40,000 / USD 3,100 - 5,200

Sold: CHF 8,750

Three-body, "bassine", polished, caseback with lady playing with doves against a sunburst cloisonne background, bezels hand engraved in a floral and leaf pattern, band set with sapphires. Champagne with applied blued steel Arabic numerals, outer dot divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel hands. Rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to all positions and temperatures, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-6-01

Very good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 45 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm. This watch is illustrated in The Jurgensen Dynasty by John Knudsen, p. 304.