Dating junghans clocks

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Q uite honestly an entire book should be dedicated to dating a clock. I wanted to explore the topic a little further and this post will present a variety of methods used to date an antique or vintage mechanical clock. There is no single method of dating an antique or vintage clock but there are some strong clues in some situations and subtle inferences in others that help determine when a clock was manufactured. Occasionally, the exact month and year is displayed somewhere on the case, and in other instances the clock by way of serial numbers, date stamps on the movement, style of hands, spandrels, dial design, case design, and so on, establishes the date to within a certain period. After foreign clocks Europe, England were mandated to have the country of origin on the case, usually on the dial. Any clock made after that date will have the country of origin. A little research into the history of any clockmaker will put you in the right ballpark for dating your clock. For example, E. Welch, an American clock company made clocks up to when they were taken over by the Sessions Clock Company which made clocks up to By Junghans was the largest clock manufacturer in the world and continued in its quest to bring more companies into the fold.

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Erhard Junghans originally followed in his father's footsteps working as a designer in an Schramberg porcelain factory in the Black Forest. By , Erhard Junghans had set aside capital to start his own business producing accessories for clocks and subsequently complete clocks. He enlisted his brother Xaver, a cabinetmaker then living in America, to acquire the assembly-line machinery for making clock parts.

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Super Rare Machine Age Clock By Junghans Dated 193

Junghans Uhren GmbH is a renowned German watch and clockmaking company with a long and distinguished history. The company was founded in by Erhard Junghans and his brother-in-law, Jakob Zeller-Tobler, in the town of Schramberg, located in the Black Forest region of Germany. Initially, Junghans focused on manufacturing high-quality pocket watches with precision movements.

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