The fantastic four!

Junghans and the number 4

Max Bill created in his collaboration with Junghans a special digit design. A number stands particularly striking:

The Number 4

However, up to this number which looks like an upside-down chair there was a long way. Let us on a photographic journey and highlight the numeral 4 in more detail, to those four, that has made the collaboration between Junghans and Max Bill so striking and still does. The road to the legend fascinates me and lets me begin in 1927 with the first wrist watch of Junghans:

Addendum:

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Junghans J53 NOBRK; Detail 4; about 1927

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Junghans J70; Detail 4; about 1932

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Ingersoll Triumph; Junghans J70; Detail 4; about 1932

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H.A.C.; Junghans J80; Junghans 680.70; Detail 4; about 1935

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Junghans J91; Detail 4; about 1936

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Junghans J80; Junghans 680.70; Detail 4; about 1937

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Junghans J97; Detail 4; about 1942

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Junghans J80; Junghans 680.70; Detail 4; about 1943

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Junghans J97; Detail 4; about 1945

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Junghans J80; Junghans 680.72; Detail 4; about 1949

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Junghans J98; Junghans 698.70; Detail 4; about 1952

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Junghans J98; Junghans 698.71; Detail 4; about 1952

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Junghans J82/2; Junghans 682.71; Detail 4; about 1954

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Junghans J82/1; Junghans 682.72; Detail 4; about 1954

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Junghans J93/1; Junghans 693.83; Detail 4; about 1954

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Junghans J88; Junghans 688.70; Detail 4; about 1955

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Junghans J82/1; Junghans 682.73; Detail 4; about 1955

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Junghans J89; Junghans 689.70; Detail 4; about 1958

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Junghans J93; Junghans 693.80; Detail 4; about 1958

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Junghans J93S1; Junghans 693.70; Detail 4; about 1960

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Junghans J93; Junghans 693.80; Detail 4; about 1960

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Junghans J 87/10; Junghans 687.00; Detail 4; about 1962

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Junghans 620.00; Detail 4; about 1967

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Junghans 651.12; ETA 2452 Detail 4; about 1970

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Junghans 620.50, Detail 4; about 1971

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Diehl compact; Detail 4; about 1972

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Junghans 688.10; Valjoux 7734; Detail 4; about 1972

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Junghans 620.54; Detail 4; about 1973

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Junghans 653.01; Durowe 75282 INT; Detail 4; about 1973

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Junghans 620.52; Detail 4; about 1973

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Junghans top timer; AS 5008; Detail 4; about 1975

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Junghans Scheibenuhr; PUW 1560 D; Detail 4; about 1976

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Junghans J93S; Junghans 693.10; Detail 4; about 1962

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Junghans J84S3; Junghans 684.76; Detail 4; about 1962

The trip is not seen as an absolute chronological order, some of the four are from the post- Bill - time...