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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 412

Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, made in Switzerland, No. 15402, circa 1902. Very fine and rare 18K gold hunting-cased minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph and instan-taneous 60-minute register.

C. Four-body, ?deux filets?, polished with monogrammed covers, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement, inscription with date 1904 inside back cover. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring, outermost red chronograph ring with five-minute Arabic figures, subsidiary sunk seconds, minute register at 12 o?clock. M. 41mm. (18???), nickel, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, chronograph works set on the back plate, split-seconds under the dial, repeating on gongs, slide on the band. Signed on dial, case and movement. Diam. 53 mm.