Urban Jürgensen Sönner

Urban Jürgensen Sönner, No. 763, made in 1812, bought back and resold to Professor Olufsen in February 1840. Very fine and rare silver watch with special escapement in original wooden fitted deck box. Four-body, "Empire", polished, gilt hinged cuvette. Whiteenamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions withfive-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel"lozenge" hands. 49 mm, frosted gilt, full plate, cylindricalpillars, going barrel, ruby duplex escapement with ruby restinsert and steel impulse pin, double escape wheel with steellocking wheel and brass impulse wheel, 3-arm gilt brass bal-ance,blued steel balance spring with compensation curb,escapement jeweled, balance capped.Signed on the dial and cuvette.Diam. 57 mm. Notes The watch has an interesting history. Jürgensen, like Breguet, bought back his watches, which were of such high quality that they could easily be sold again. This watch was bought back by Jür-gensen in 1838, and resold in February 1840 to Professor Olufsen, a professor of Astronomy at the Copenhagen Observatory. We would like to express our gratitude to Mr. John Knudsen, the author of a monograph of the Jürgensen family, who kindly pro-vided us with the above information. Urban Jürgensen (1776-1830) Born in Copenhagen in 1776, Urban Jürgensen was the son of Jürgen Jürgensen, a well-known watchmaker who furnished watches both to the Court and the Navy. Jürgen Jürgensen was the head of the most reputed horological firm in Denm