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Junghans changes with the times. In the more than 140-year-old history of this Black Forest - based company, hardly anything in the collection has remained the same over the decades; the product palette has always been adjusted to react to the demands of the market. Today Junghans is a synonym for highly precise radio-controlled watches and alarms.
In the years of Germany's rapid industrial expansion, Junghans und Tobler, or GebrOder Junghans as it was later known, produced clocks at a reasonable price aided by modern machinery from the New World and in the American style, meaning with stamped - not cast - wheels and plates. Alarms quickly became the product to excite the public, distributed as they were since 1888 under the company's second logo, a five-pointed star with a J in the middle. At the turn of the century, Junghans was producing 1.8 million clocks annually.
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Wristwatches were added to the program at the end of the 1920s, but they were really able to establish themselves only after the war. The excellent chronograph Caliber J88 constructed
in 1948 and used by the army in the mid 1950s remains a classic in the industry. Other Junghans stars of the '50s include the wristwatch alarm Minivox (1951) and the chronometer caliber J83/1 with automatic winding (1957), whose particular movement expertly underscored the Black Forest company's place at the summit of precision watchmaking, in addition to the number of chronometer certificates it was awarded in 1956, coming in third behind Rolex and Omega.
The production of mechanical watch movements at Junghans ended in 1976, and quartz took over the timekeeping spotlight. In 1969 Junghans had already presented the first German quartz wristwatch with the AstroQuartz model and brought its sister models on the market in large quantities beginning in 1973. At this point in time, it was planned to open up a whole new quartz segment of the market, setting the course for the development of radio-controlled technology. After defeating the principle of the Faraday Cage with a crystal case back at the end of the 1990s, the first atomic watches with an integrated antenna were fitted into cases of stainless steel. The technologies of the future had finally broken
out of their design chains. The classics of the Junghans collection most likely won't be touched by this: The pilot's chronograph (Fliegerchronograph), the Max Bill, 1951 's Chronograph, and the replica of the vintage Junghans Meister will certainly continue ticking in hertz.
Junghans has belonged to the EganaGoldpfeil . group since the fall of 2000. This cooperation will surely bring the development of future and other world markets. Junghans
is currently working on a radio-controlled watch that not only tells the time, but also functions as an electronic key to start a car or open the front door.
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Junghans Watches
Egana of Switzerland (America) Corp.
2004 Northwest 25th Ave.
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
Tel.: 954-917-0662
Fax: 954-956-0858
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