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GUEST:
It's been in my family for generations. It was supposedly made by my great-great-great-grandfather. It was handed down to my grandfather and then to my father and to me. Supposedly it was made with Jules Jurgensen. I think he was a jeweler from Massachusetts. The watch was on display in Massachusetts for a long time. Other than that, I have very little history about it other than what's in the letter.

Now, Jules Jurgensen was a preeminent watchmaker in Copenhagen. He worked from in the 1850s to the 1890s. The firm stayed around for years.
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APPRAISER:
So the letter was written, you believe, somewhere in the 1940s?

GUEST:
Late 1940s.

APPRAISER:
And the signature at the bottom is your grandfather's signature.

GUEST:
That would be my grandfather's signature.

APPRAISER:
It talks about the watch. The watch is a masterpiece of horology.

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Yeah.

APPRAISER:
It's a perpetual calendar. It knows how many days are in each month, and on the fourth year, one gear ends up knowing that it has 29 days in February.

GUEST:
Right.

APPRAISER:
It also is a minute repeater, which means it chimes in a succession to the nearest minute.

GUEST:
Wow. (chiming)

APPRAISER:
It would ring hour bells, then quarter-hour bells, and then minute bells. Okay. It also shows the phase of the moon. It also has another function, which is a chronometer that you can time something with. The case is made out of 18-karat gold. It's a hunting case. When you open the watch up in the back, there's an exhibition cover which then shows the entire movement. There's an issue I have with the letter. The letter says that the watch was 140 years old when the letter was written. The watch, though, was probably produced between 1880 to 1890. So if it was written in the '40s, then the watch was about 60 years old. When we see something where one thing is off, then we have to wonder, are there other things that are off? So it says in the letter that your great-grandfather, I guess, was a watchmaker working with Jules Jurgensen. Now, Jules Jurgensen was a preeminent watchmaker in Copenhagen. He worked from in the 1850s to the 1890s. The firm stayed around for years. They were noted for very, very fine watches, also, like this, very, very heavy 18-karat gold. The watch has the feel of what a Jurgensen could be.

GUEST:
Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER:
The price of the watch as is, with having a disparity in the date on the letter and as if it was not made by Jules Jurgensen, the value on the retail market would be in the $25,000 to $30,000 price range.

GUEST:
Wow.

APPRAISER:
Blank map of india. Now, underneath the dial and on some of the plates of the movement, a lot of times there are secret signatures. It probably would be worth spending a little money and having an expert watchmaker disassemble the watch to see if there is anything underneath the dials.

GUEST:
Okay.

APPRAISER:
If there happens to be the 'J.J.' mark of Jules Jurgensen, that could double the price of the watch.

GUEST:
Okay.

My interest in the Jules Jurgensen marque was spurred by my recent reading of 'A Grand Complication' by Stacy Perman (See HERE, HERE, and HERE).
The centerpieces, as well as the core of both the Graves and Packard Collections were Patek Philippe watches, of course. But neither collected Patek exclusively, and their collections included many other watch brands, most notably multiple examples from Vacheron Constantin and - you guessed it! - Jules Jurgensen.
Now the former surprised me not at all. Vacheron Constantin is still around, and their products are most definitely near the pinnacle of High End. OTOH Jules Jurgensen gave me a major 'WTH?!' moment, as I knew them only from their latter-day offerings, of a grade that could at best be considered Cheap Fashion Watches. Things like this:
An OK watch in it's own way, sure. But see that '2035' on the dial? Well, that refers to the movement..

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Again, the Miyota 2035 is A-OK. But it's also commonly available for under US $5, so obviously these are not high-end watches.
A bit more research tells me.

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That, even in this modest guise, the company is no more. Not sure exactly when they closed the doors, but it was apparently quite recently.
A peek over at the House Of Jimmy Wales confirms it..

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Jules Jurgensen is a watchmaking company. It was founded by Jürgen Jürgensen in 1740 in Denmark, when Jürgen Jürgensen went into partnership with Isaac Larpent, under the name “Larpent & Jürgensen”.
Upon Jürgens death in 1811, his youngest son Frederik took over the company and changed the name to “Frederik Jürgensen”, while his eldest son Urban started his own company under the name “Urban Jürgensen” (Jürgens middle son was adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen). Urban Jürgensen was paid by the Royal Danish government to kickstart the production of Danish marine chronometers. Urban married the daughter of Frederic Houriet in Switzerland.
After Urban Jürgensen died in 1830, his younger son Jules went to Switzerland and started his own company under the name “Jules Jürgensen Copenhagen” in 1836, and his eldest son Louis Urban Jürgensen continued the business in Denmark, now under the name “Urban Jürgensens Sønner”. Today the company Urban Jürgensens Sønner produces some of the finest watches in the world.
Jules Jürgensen produced many fine, different, and fascinating watches in Switzerland, any serious watch collector may consider to own one. Jules Jürgensen was sold to a company in the US in 1936, but the watches were still produced in Switzerland until 1957, at which time it was first documented that the watches were made by others and have their name put on them.
The company was sold to Mort Clayman in 1974, a watch distributor in the US. According to the company's website, they are no longer in business.

Moving a bit further back, there are Japanese-powered mechanicals:

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Nice watch, though still not exactly High End.
Even so, this 1970 advertisement..
Shows that the company could still Talk The Talk.
And, it would seem, they had not entirely lost the ability to Walk The Walk.

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That's about ~ a US $3.5K watch there.
But obviously 'twas the Pre-WW2 iteration of the company that I needed to read up on.
A bit more digging revealed some 1937 ads..

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And a history of the brand which is a bit more detailed than the Wikipedia stub..

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Jon Hanson @ whmb.webhorology.com
May 16, 2005
A Brief History of Jules Jurgensen Watches
by Donald L. Dawe