Lot 19

Jules Jürgensen

A very fine and rare table chronometer with "seconde foudrayante" and centre seconds

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This table chronometer is constructed as a pocket watch movement and housed in a profiled wooden stand. On the back and on the underside is the signature of Jules Jürgensen and the number 11307. The chronometer was shown in 1974 in the Jürgensen exhibition at the Chateau des Monts in Le Locle.
A similar pocket watch movement is illustrated in Urban Juergensen & Soenner by John M. R. Knudsen, Copenhagen 2003, page 304.

Jules Juergensen (1808-1877) was born in Le Locle 1808 as son of the watchmacker Urban Jürgensen (grandson of Jacques-Frédéric Houriet). In Kopenhagen Juergensen received his training in the watchmaking business of his family and in addition studied mathematics, astronomy and foreign languages. Shortly after the death of Jacques-Frédéric Houriet, Juergensen went to Switzerland and opened a watch manufactory in Le Locle. His precision watches gained worldwide recognition.
Lit.: E. Fallet, La mesure du temps en mer et les horlogers suisses, 1995, 79-81.