JULES JURGENSEN MINUTE REPEATING
SPLIT-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH
POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD
Jules Jurgensen, Copenhagen, No. 15199.
Made circa 1894.
Very fine and very rare, minute repeating, 18K gold
hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with split seconds
chronograph, instantaneous 60-minute register and
Jurgensen's patented bow hand-setting mechanism.
Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, hinged
gold cuvette
White enamel with roman numerals, outer minute
track and concentric red painted fifth of a second
indexes, outer Arabic five minute/second numerals,
subsidiary seconds at 6, 60-minute register at 12.
Blued steel Breguet hands.
18''', rhodium-plated, 32 jewels, counterpoised
straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic
compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-
spring, index regulator, repeating on two gongs
activated by a slide in the band.