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Collector's Choice: @jumphourking Ruud van Rijn Talks Jump Hour Watches

12 September 2024

Let's start with the most important question. What is it about the jump hour mechanismthatso enamours you?When I started collecting watches in the 1990s I liked odd' watches, mainly from the 1970s. That meant alarm watches, strangely shaped cases, 24-hour dials, world time anything out of the ordinary. I am not into ‘normal’ round watches with round dials with just hours, minutes and seconds hands. As time passed, I began to focus on one specialty: the jump hour. These jump hour watches often had strangely shaped cases, and looked the most different from your normal' watch. Furthermore, nobody else had them. Another important factor was that jump hour watches were not expensive at the time I started collecting. Nowadays, that has unfortunately changed. Once I started collecting jump hours, I got the classic collector fever: I had to collect them all. Now I have hundreds of jump hour watches and almost every type and calibre ever made, except for the very expensive ones (Patek, AP, Vacheron etc).1928 Robert Cart Jules Jurgensen..................