Important Danish gold chronometer with lever escapement Circa 1820

Gold watch engraved with Royal crown
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Important Danish gold pocket chronometer with a lever escapement, circa 1820. An engine turned case, gilt brass hinged cuvette. Engraved with a Royal crown and Urban Jurgensen fecit No 32. with winding aperture. The white enamel dial is signed Urban Jurgensen with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, large subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and blue steel spade hands.
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The movement is made from a Houriet garde-temps, frosted gilt, three-quarter plate, with cylindrical pillars secured by screws, the back plate recessed for the barrel secured by a bridge, the fusee with chain and Harrison’s maintaining power, gold train, a winding square surrounded by a dust pipe fixed on the top plate. Swiss-type lever escapement with enclosed pallets and divided lift, steel escape wheel, steel anchor, two-armed compensated balance, flat steel balance spring with terminal curve and double roller. Dial, case and movement signed.
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Diameter: 61 mm
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Thickness: 25 mm
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Signed: Urban Jürgensen  Copenhagen
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This watch is illustrated in The Jurgensen Dynasty by John Knudsen. According to literature, the watch belonged to the young Crown Prince Frederik Carl Christian, the later King Frederik VII, whose crown monogram was engraved on the dust cover. According to tradition, the watch came to the family as a present from the young Crown Prince, who was a member of the same riflemen’s association as an ancestor of the family. On some special occasion, the latter obtained such a good result in shooting that the Crown Prince enthusiastically pulled his watch out of his pocket and presented it to the lucky man in recognition of his skill.