A tale
as old as
time

Narrated by
Nikolaj coster-waldau

Start Story

Once upon a timein the darkwinters of Copenhagen

The father
of danish
watchmaking
sat his son down to
polish his first
blue screw...

  • Jørgen Jørgensen
    1770

    Once Upon a Time

  • Landscape painting
    1773

    The Story Begins

    18th-Century Larpent and Jurgensen Watch
  • 1776

    A Prodigy is Born

This was urbanJürgensen,

whose quest
for watchmaking
wisdom took him on
an odyssey
accross frigid
seas.

Learning from
the great masters,
he recorded his
findings in a
Book For future
time-keepers.

Urban’s creations
charted paths
through stars.

  • 1797

    Urban Sets Sail

  • 1801

    Homeward Bound

  • 1811

    The Passing of the Torch

  • 1804

    The Book

His singulargenius put the Danish navyon the map...

and chronometers in
the pockets of
kings…
Exceptional
engineering
animated
by a Danish spirit,
Urban taught the
world to keep
time beautifully.

  • 1815

    The First Golden Age

  • 1820

    Company Man & Kings Watch

    Portrait of Prince Frederick, c. 1824
  • 1830

    The Loss of a Legend

Over the nexttwo hundred years,

the Urban Jürgensen
name traveled to
far-flung places,
touched by
many hands, many
cultures.

  • 1834

    The Legacy Lives On

  • 1867

    World Exhibition

  • 1894

    Jules Jürgensen

  • 1919

    Rose Watch Co. & Ed. Heuer & Co.

  • 1936

    Dark Years

Until one day in copenhagen...a swiss watchcollector

...discovered
Urban's legacy.

Along with a British
watchmaking
legend and a young
and promising Finn,
he set out to share it with
the world again.

  • 1976

    The Bicentennial

  • 1979

    The Second Golden Age

  • 1996

    The Next Great Scandinavian Watchmaker

  • 2005

    The Oval Pocket Watch & The P8

  • 2011

    The Doctor Steps In

  • 2014

    Return to the Danes

After another long odyssey,

Urban Jürgensen
is finally back
home,
in family hands.
Reminding the
world that the way
we keep time
inspires how
we spend it.

A tale as old as
time now turns the
gears on its next
great chapter.

  • 2021

    Back to Family

  • 2025

    The Legacy Contines

The new
Urban Jürgensen
Collection