Jules Jurgensen was born in Locle, Switzerland in 1808 while his parents were visiting and his father was studying jewel piercing. By giving a chronology of the make, I will show where they as well as others of the make fit. I have recently been asked about quartz watches bearing the name Jules Jurgensen. I have prepared this short monograph to provide information on these watches so owners can answer their simplest questions without need of going into further detail.
Shows that the company could still Talk The Talk.Īnd, it would seem, they had not entirely lost the ability to Walk The Walk.īut obviously 'twas the Pre-WW2 iteration of the company that I needed to read up on.Ī bit more digging revealed some 1937 ads.Īnd a history of the brand which is a bit more detailed than the Wikipedia stub.Ī Brief History of Jules Jurgensen Watches Nice watch, though still not exactly High End. Moving a bit further back, there are Japanese-powered mechanicals: According to the company's website, they are no longer in business. The company was sold to Mort Clayman in 1974, a watch distributor in the US. 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. Jules Jürgensen produced many fine, different, and fascinating watches in Switzerland, any serious watch collector may consider to own one. Today the company Urban Jürgensens Sønner produces some of the finest watches in the world. Urban married the daughter of Frederic Houriet in Switzerland.Īfter 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”. Urban Jürgensen was paid by the Royal Danish government to kickstart the production of Danish marine chronometers.
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). It was founded by Jürgen Jürgensen in 1740 in Denmark, when Jürgen Jürgensen went into partnership with Isaac Larpent, under the name “Larpent & Jürgensen”. Jules Jurgensen is a watchmaking company. Not sure exactly when they closed the doors, but it was apparently quite recently.Ī peek over at the House Of Jimmy Wales confirms it. That, even in this modest guise, the company is no more. But it's also commonly available for under US $5, so obviously these are not high-end watches. But see that "2035" on the dial? Well, that refers to the movement.Īgain, the Miyota 2035 is A-OK. Things like this:Īn OK watch in it's own way, sure. 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. Vacheron Constantin is still around, and their products are most definitely near the pinnacle of High End. 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.
The centerpieces, as well as the core of both the Graves and Packard Collections were Patek Philippe watches, of course. 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).
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