Larpent & Jürgensen

An early Copenhagen pocket watch with cylinder escapement

Sold

estimated

1.500—3.000 €

Price realized

1.000 €

specific features

Case

Silver, Jürgensen manufacturing punchmark "KPF/JJ".

Dial

Enamel.

Movement

Full plate movement, keywind, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.

Diam.58 mm

Circa1794

Ctry.Denmark

Wt.108 g

The watch case was manufactured in Larpent & Jürgensen's own establishment. The punchmark "KPF/JJ" means "Kongelig Priviligeret Fabrik/Jürgen Jürgensen" (Royal Warranted Factory/Jürgen Jürgensen).

Jörgen Jürgensen (1748-1811) was the father of the renowned watchmaker Urban Juergensen; he started a watchmaking factory in Kopenhagen in 1775 and went into partnership with Isaac Larpent in 1780. From then on the company operated under the name "Larpent & Juergensen" in Roskilde.