Although not technically an Independent Watchmaker, as this is an old Danish brand, named after the genius watchmaker Urban Jürgensen, who was based in Copenhagen. He made highly sort after marine chronometers and pocketwatches for discerning clients.

Today the company is owned by a gentleman by the name of Peter Baumberger, who is a perfectionist when it comes to his watches. He has a small group of watchmakers working for him to create these elegant special watches. In the past, he has relied on other suppliers to source the base movts. F. Piguet being one of them. This year in Basel where he was sharing with Vianney & others, he showed for the first time a new inhouse movement, wholly designed by Peter, that will be the cornerstone of the collection in the future. The first 2 pieces I saw were manual wind, but I'm told an automatic is on the horizon too.

I first met Peter two years ago, and was enchanted by his watches and passion for the business. At that time it didn't seem like a fit. I am now more open to this great brand, as I see them doing things right. creating real watches for the connoisseur.

So to the watches...first up is a platinum unique piece Minute Repeater Tourbillon, this time Claret's base canvas is used to show off the repeating mechanism on the dial side, with the tourbillon only being revealed on the back side, together with the hammers of the repeater.

Now the back, showing off the lovely tourbillon...

Now the new watch sporting Peter's new movement:

And now the movement, which by the way can be had with a traditional lever escapement or a detent chronometer escapement...

Possibly the most elegant watches on the market, with stunning guilloche dials and lovely hands, with a long history of superlative clocks and pocketwatches to back up the designs.

Urban Jürgensen today carries on that superlative watch and clock making of years gone by. Connaiseurs know this and will be very pleased to have these timepieces available.