Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 63

JULES JURGENSEN MINUTE REPEATING SPLIT-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD Jules Jurgensen, Copenhagen, No. 15199. Made circa 1894. Very fine and very rare, minute repeating, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with split seconds chronograph, instantaneous 60-minute register and Jurgensen's patented bow hand-setting mechanism.

Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, hinged gold cuvette White enamel with roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric red painted fifth of a second indexes, outer Arabic five minute/second numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6, 60-minute register at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. 18''', rhodium-plated, 32 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance- spring, index regulator, repeating on two gongs activated by a slide in the band.