Important Watches, Wristwatches and c...
Tokyo, Dec 15, 1989
LOT 196
Jules Jurgensen ? Copenhagen ? No 115062, made in 1892. Fine 18 ct pink gold hunting cased minute repeating key-less watch in an original Brazilian rosewood fitted case and with a certificate.
JPY 900,000 - 1,200,000
USD 6,000 - 8,000
Sold: JPY 1,436,250
Four body, massive "demi-bassine et filet" polished case. Gold cuvette, engine-turned on the edge. White enamel dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Good nickel 17 movement, "a vagues" decoration, 32 jewels, three gold screwed settings, equilibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Special patented Jules Jurgensen hand setting device by means of the benting bow. Signed on the dial, the movement, the cuvette and in the fitted wood box. In very good condition. Diam.: 49 mm.
