- Jules Jurgensen
Jules Jurgensen is one of the oldest
watchmaking companies in the world. It was founded by Jürgen Jürgensen in1740 inDenmark , under the name Larpent & Jürgensen.Jurgen's son, Urban Jürgensen, took over the company and changed the name to
Urban Jürgensen . The company was paid by the royal Danish government to kickstart the Danish marinechronometer industry. That meant trips toSwitzerland , more preciselyLe Locle,_Switzerland andGeneva,_Switzerland . Today Urban Jürgensen produces some of the finest watches in the world.Urban Jürgensen's son Jules Jürgensen took over the company and changed the name to "Urban Jürgensen and Sons." He started production of fine watches under the name "Jules Jürgensen,
Copenhagen ", in1838 .Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen produced many fine, different, and fascinating watches. Any Danish watch collector should at least own one, because many of the watches carry the royal Danish crown since the firm had an appointment to the royal Danish court.
Jules Jürgensen produced its own watches 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 a watch distributor in the
US , and today the watches are produced in the former Danish colony ofSt. Croix ,United States Virgin Islands .References, external link
*Jules Jurgensen website - [http://www.helbros.com/] or [http://www.jjwatch.com/]
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