Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 178

?5-Minute-Repeater? Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 10150. Made in Switzerland, circa 1870. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, 5-minuterepeating 18K yellow gold pocket watch.

HKD 40,000 - 50,000

USD 5,300 - 6,500 / EUR 4,000 - 5,000

Sold: HKD 49,560

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, engineturned covers, coin-edge band, hinged and glazed gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 18???, ?maillechort?, 35 jewels, fork and escape jewels in gold caps, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-17

Good

Slightly spotted

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original