Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 88

Jules Jürgensen, Swiss, No. 14293. Made circa 1880. Very fine, large and heavy, 18K gold keyless pocket watch with Jûrgensen?s patent bow hand setting, patented in 1867. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, massive, "bassine", polished, concealed hinges, Jürgensen's patented bow hand setting. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Brushed pink with blue radial Arabic numerals, blue outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 20???, maillechort, 17 jewels, the visible jewels in screwed gold chatons, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement with elongated fork, large diameter cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, large index regulator with engraved scale on the center bridge. Case and movement signed. Diam. 54.5 mm.