Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 231

Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 1195. Produced in Switzerland circa 1865.Very fine and very rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, engine-turned with reeded band, hinged gold cuvette. D. white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands.M. Cal. 44 mm (19,5'''), nickel, bar caliber, 32 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide onthe band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 54 mm.