Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 62

JULES JURGENSEN SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 15238. Made in 1898. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold keyless pocket watch with split seconds chronograph. Accompanied by the copy of the Jules Jurgensen extract confirming its sale in the amount of CHF 698.75

Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph hand, button at 11 o`clock for the split-seconds and re-join, slide at 11 for locking the chronograph,. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and concentric red painted fifth of a second indexes, outer Arabic five minute/ second numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. 17```, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance- spring, elongated index regulator with engraved scale on center bridge.