Vintage hot Junghans Electronic Brass Carriage Clock

Here we have a delightful vintage brass Junghans Electronic carriage clock.

This lovely little brass clock stands 14cm to the tip of its handle, 8.5cm wide and 5.5cm deep and weighs 766g. It is of a traditional design. The brass case a simple plain design in brass with an ornate brass handle. The base has four tiny feet. It is glass fronted with the glass having bevelled edges with silver clock face and traditional roman numerals with ornate hour and minute hands and 'JUNGHANS electronic' with their logo printed below the clock face and 'LIC. ATO FORIEGN' at its base. The electronic movement is accessed via the rear brass door and is powered by a 1.5v battery. This looks clean and free of battery leak and corrosion. We have not tested the movement but see no reason why it should not operate correctly. As well as the traditional hand adjuster there is an start/stop switch and a movement adjuster to slow or speed the timing by 5 second periods of 1 hour. The movement is stamped 'made in Germany'. The back of the clock is engraved 'AVON 10 YEARS JWL' and we suspect this was either a long service award or leaving gift.

On 15 April 1861 Erhard Junghans created the company Junghans und Tobler together with his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller-Tobler in Schramberg. By the year 1903, Junghans had the largest watch and clock factory, with over 3000 employees. The company began to produce wristwatches in 1927, and over the following decades created clocks and watches for the civilian market and the German air force. Beginning in the 1950s, the Bauhaus-trained designer Max Bill created products for the firm, notably the teardrop-shaped "Kitchen Clock with Timer", which can be found in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, and followed by a series of watches, the first of which launched in 1961. The relationship between Junghans and Bill lasted many years, and the company has continued to release new models based on his work. Many of the firm's best-selling watches today are based on those designed by Bill. The company served as the official timekeeper for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. In the late 1980s, Junghans introduced the first radio-controlled table clock on the world market. In 1990 the first radio-controlled wristwatch, called the MEGA 1, followed, designed by Hartmut Esslinger and his firm Frog Design. In 1995 Junghans presented a solar-powered watch with ceramic hot housing. Together with the Japanese firm Seiko, Junghans developed a globally-oriented wristwatch that automatically sets the local time in respective time zones.

The clock is a classic mid 20th Century icon and will be of interest to clock collectors, brass collectors, time savers, clock watchers, or would be ideal as a period drama prop.