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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 103

Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, Swiss, No. 14899,completed on March 1892.Fine 18K pink gold hunting cased, keyless minute repeating watch.

C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filets?, polished, the cover engraved with a maiden in classical dress, playing the lyre, seated on a dolphin, the back with a monogram. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer minute ring and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Glazed 19???, nickel plated,31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Special Jules Jürgensen hand-setting device by means of the folding bow patented on 15 January 1867.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 57 mm.Accompanied by photocopies of the original workshops logs.