Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 76

URBAN JURGENSEN QUARTER REPEAT WITH DOUBLE WHEEL DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT PINK GOLD Urban Jurgensen, Copenhagen, No. 643. Made circa 1805. A fine, early and very rare, quarter repeating 18k pink gold pocket watch with double duplex.

CHF 800 - 1,200

HKD 6,400 - 10,000 / USD 830 - 1,300

Sold: CHF 2,750

Four-body, bassine, trois pommes, reeded bezels and band, engine-turned back with reeded border. hinged gold cuvette, gilt dust cover. Enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel breguet hands. 50 mm., matte gilt full-plate, turned cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain with maintaining power, jeweled duplex escapement, three- arm gold balance, flat balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 4-25-33-01

Fair

Chipped

Restored

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and case signed. DIAM. 60 mm. THICKNESS 21 mm.