Company profile: Junghans was founded in 1861 in Schramberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region, by Erhard Junghans and his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller-Tobler. Initially they were manufacturing components for Black Forest clocks, such as cases, hands, hinges, pendulums and so forth. They began making their own clocks in 1866, using principally movements made in the…
A watch with a genuine period flavour can look impressive and has the advantage that it can never go out of style… it’s already out of style by definition. This sort of operation can produce excellent results in terms of sales, as demonstrated by watches such as the IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days edition, launched…
This pilot’s watch by German brand Junghans has a world of character. It’s totally pilot’s in its looks, but it’s different from any other pilot’s watch. It incorporates a lot of the brand’s history, with the movement named after its own in-house J88 chronograph movement designed in 1949, and the unusual twelve-sided bezel derived directly…
These women’s watches by Junghans are not just quartz watches: they are absolutely accurate, and provide perpetual calendar functions, because they are capable of receiving time signals. They are powered by sunlight, which filters through the mother-of-pearl dial, down to solar cells underneath, and so they have a power reserve of up to 21 months.…
At Baselworld, running from 19 to 26 March, Junghans will be presenting models of its Meister range in new colours. The brand has provided an anticipation of what will be seen in Basel with the Meister Chronoscope, in a deep blue sheen which Junghans poetically say is based on the colour that “can be observed…