Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 150

ules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, made in Switzerland, No. 15632, circa 1902. Very fine and rare 18K gold split seconds chronograph watch with instantaneous 60-minute register and "bow set".

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring, outermost red chronograph ring with five-minute Arabic figures, sunk subsidiary seconds, minute register at 12. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 38 mm (17???), nickel, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance-spring, chronograph set on the back plate, split seconds mechanism under the dial, Jules Jürgensen patented bow setting.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 47 mm.