Inventiveness and the pursuit of precision are the keys to the success of Junghans watches. Very soon after the company’s founding in 1861, Junghans timepieces gained an international reputation as reliable precision products of German matchmaking. The achievements of Arthur Junghans, son of the company’s founder and himself a great inventor, are legendary. Arthur Junghans had an exceptional understanding of how to combine technical advancements with traditional values of matchmaking. Watches, which were all mechanical at the time, became affordable for broader sections of the population, and the company grew increasingly successful. By 1903, Junghans boasted the world’s largest watch factory.
The demands placed on timepieces have changed over the years, but the junghans philosophy has remained the same. The unique combination of the traditional matchmaking craft, the pursuit of innovation, and a fusing of modernity and tradition continue to shape the work of Junghans today. Traditional values continue to create matchmaking history. The invention and continued development of radio technology are tightly linked with the name Junghans. In the Readers’ Digest survey entitled “European Most Trusted Brands”, Junghans was elected the most trusted brand in Germany in 2003 and 2004.
A quest for excellence- from the very beginning
The Junghans watch factory came into being in 1861. Erhard Junghans founded the company in Schramberg. A small town in the Black Forest, together with his brother-in-law, Jakob Zeller-Tobler. At first, they specialized in manufacturing individual parts for watch production. The precision of Junghans work quickly became synonymous with outstanding quality of manufacturing. The first watches bearing the Junghans brand were designed and constructed by the company’s own master watchmakers in 1866.
Arthur Junghans
Following his father’s untimely demise, Arthur Junghans took over the company in 1875. a watchmaker by trade, he had studied the latest technologies on his travels through America. Many innovations thus found their way into a company where Arthur Junghans himself was now in charge of inspiration, construction, and technological development.
The star over Junghans
The 8-point star that is still the Junghans trademark today was first registered in 1890. At that time, many patents and processes were already developed that gave Junghans a competitive edge in quality and manufacturing. Junghans watches came to be known as affordable, high-quality products from Germany and sold well around the world. In 1903, Arthur Junghan’s vision became a reality-Junghans was the world’s largest watch factory. More than 3,000 employees produced more than 3 million watches each year. The manufacturing facility soon had to be expanded. And so the terrace building came into being, with a step-like construction that delivered natural daylight to each and every watchmaker’s work station. This building was also the place where Germany’s first mechanical wristwatches were manufactured.
A precious legacy in difficult times
After Arthur Junghans’ death, his sons Erwin and Oscar took over management of the company in 1920. Continuing the company’s legacy and maintaining its high standards was no easy task, but the brothers mastered it successfully. In line with the spirit of the age, more and more wristwatches were manufactured, which would quickly replace pocket watches as the most popular style of watch on the market. Even after the Second World War and the dismantling of the factory, the innovative spirit of Junghans’ master watchmakers remained undaunted. Junghans developed the first wristwatch chronograph Movement, the legendary j88, as early as 1946. Junghans was also able to assert itself as a company with a long tradition and a spirit for innovation in the new market environment of post-war reconstruction. In 1955, the first line of electrical watches was one such innovation. In 1957, a collaboration with Max Bill of the Bauhaus school began, whose matter-of-fact design remains as popular as ever.
The time of quartz
Following the successful consolidation of the company after 1945, Junghans began to focus on new, more precise methods for measuring time. The first result of these efforts was the electric movement. But it was the newly invented quartz technology that Junghans really took up and developed further. The first German quartz clock was built at the end of the 1960s and Germany’s first quartz wristwatch was built in 1970. as a pioneer of chronographic development, Junghans made history once again as the official timekeeper of the 1972 Olympic Games.
Junghans and the radio-controlled timepiece
Junghans created yet another revolution on the clock-and watch making market when they developed the first radio-controlled table clock. The world’s first radio-controlled wristwatch, the mega 1, followed the first radio-controlled solar clock in 1990. to celebrate the Mega 1’s 15th anniversary in 2005 and to pay tribute to the classic, Junghans launched the Mega 1000, a new interpretation of the world’s first radio-controlled wrist watch, combining contemporary design and ultra-modern technology.
Junghans Watch Collections:Overview
Junghans Meister” collection
Max Bill by Junghans
Junghans Avantgarde Collection
Junghans Versatile Anytime Collection
Courtesy :Junghans Uhren GmbH ,Schramberg, Germany.
Official website:www.junghans.de
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