Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 249

Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, made in Switzerland, No. 15469, circa 1902.Very fine, 18K and enamel, minute-repeating watch with split seconds chronograph and instantaneous 60-minute register.

C. four-body, "bassine", polished with champleve blue enamel monogram on back cover, gold hinged cuvette, inscription with date 1917 inside back cover. D. white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, outermost red chronograph ring with five-minute Arabic figures, subsidiary sunk seconds, minute register at 12 o'clock.M. 38mm (17'''), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, chronograph and split seconds works set on the back plate, repeating on gongs, slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 48mm.