Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2025

LOT 613

JULES JÜRGENSEN, DANEMARK, MINUTE REPEATING AND SPLIT-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH, 18K PINK GOLD

CHF 15,000 - 25,000

HKD 144,000 - 238,000 / USD 18,400 - 30,600 / EUR 16,100 - 26,900

A very fine, 18k pink gold, manual wind open face keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register. Champagne matte dial with Roman numerals and Breguet hands. Two subsidiary dials indicating constant seconds and 30-minute register, polished case with a button in the band to activate the split seconds, the chronograph activated by a button in the bow, repeating on two coiled steel gongs activated by a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Brand Jules Jürgensen, Danemark

Year Sold in July 1904

Movement No. 15529

Case No. 15529

Diameter 52 mm.

Caliber 18''', nickel, ''fausses côtes'' decoration, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, chronograph and split seconds works set on the back plate, repeating on gongs, slide on the band.

Signature Dial, case and movement

Accessories copy of the Jules Jürgensen order Book

Notes

Jules Frédéric Jürgensen (1808-1877) The son of Urban Jürgensen, and a very eminent watchmaker himself, Jules was born in Le Locle but as a child moved with his parents to Denmark. In 1830, after the death of his father, the company was taken over by Jules and his brother Louis Urban.
In 1833, Jules returned to Le Locle and built up a great business. After his death, the family business was continued by his brother and in 1886 it was sold to an employee, H. Kiens, whose sons, Jules 1837-1894 and Jacques Alfred 1842-1912, continued the business, as did the House of Heuer subsequently. Jürgensen became watchmaker to the King of Denmark, and was made a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur and Knight of the Royal Order of Dannebrog. Between 1870 and 1876 he was a member of the commission of surveillance of the Geneva School of Horology, along with Ekegren and Potter and others; he was a member of many commissions in Switzerland judging horological contests. He stamped most of his watches on the pillar plate under the dial: Jules Jürgensen of Copenhagen.