Bidspirit auction | Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen

Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen - Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen No. 6857, circa 1860 A 18k gold quarter repeating hunting-cased pocket watch on strike and demand Case: round hinged, hunting case type with polished exterior and inscription inside the cuvette, reeded band fitted with a pusher activating the quarter repeating mechanism, striking the hours and quarters on demand, also two slides with inscription « P » and « G » as well as « N » and « S » meaning most probably «Petite Sonnerie » and « Grande Sonnerie » as well as « Neutre » and « Silence » Cuvette: engraved inside the cuvette: Charles Collins Hartford Bought of Tiffany & Co New York Dial: white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track and subsidiary seconds at 6, blued-steel Breguet style hands, signed « Jules Jurgensen Copenhagen » Movement: key winding mechanism, gilt movement of high quality, jewelled throughout and signed Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, with compensated balance and precision regulator, two hammers repeating on a gong, signed « Jules Jurgensen Copenhagen » and numbered « 6857 » Dimensions: 54 mm Weight: 165 g Accessories: presentation wooden box with initials “EB” Provenance: Swiss owner The cuvette inscription, Bought of Tiffany & Co New York, places the present watch within the flourishing transtlantic market for fine European timepieces in nineteenth-century America. Founded in 1837, Tiffany & Co. had, by the mid-century, established itself among New York’s foremost retailers of luxury watches and jewellery, supplying an affluent clientele with imported Swiss and continental productions of the highest quality. In this context, the association with Jules Jürgensen is entirely consistent, uniting one of the great names of Scandinavian horology with one of America’s most prestigious luxury houses.