Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 364

JULES JÜRGENSEN YELLOW GOLD MINUTE REPEATER SPLIT CHRONOGRAPH Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, movement No. 15055, case No. N15055. Made circa 1910 for the Russian market. Very fine and rare, thick, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped split-single button chronograph and minute repeater.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, mobile lugs, hinged engraved cuvette, button at 12 to activate the chronograph, button at 2 to activate the split function. D. Enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost 1/5th second divisions with every fi ve Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 36 mm, rhodium plated, straight line lever escapement, cut bi-metallic balance, selfcompensating blued Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating the slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 16 mm.