URBAN JÜRGENSEN No. 15131
century’s most respected and admired watchmakers, Derek Pratt, to revive the brand. Derek Pratt was involved not only in reworking the movement but also making the sumptuous hand guilloché dial. Enter Kari Voutilainen, genius contemporary watchmaker who was recently charged in restoring this timepiece that had already been worked on by Jürgensen and Pratt giving this timepiece an immeasurable cachet.
The present timepiece from the family of the original owner is in superb condition and provides incredible value. The case, dial and movement provide for a technically and visually stimulating formula and it is a superb example of human ingenuity made by Jürgensen at a time where no computers or CNC machines were available and worked on during the 20th and 21st century by two of the greatest watchmakers of their era.
Even though there is no specifc defnition of a “grand complication” scholars agree that there needs to be at least a calendar function, a time recording one and a chiming function, the present timepiece featuring a perpetual calendar, split seconds chronograph and minute repeater comfortably fts the bill.
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