Junghans Kitchen Clock 331/9001

Kitchen clock 331/9001 dial with numbers

Design: Udo Schultheiss

Junghans Küchenuhr with timer; Design Udo Schultheiss

In 1964/65, the later Junghans chief designer Udo Schultheiss designed a kitchen clock that won several awards. It hangs in the design exhibitions of the Louvre Museum, the Moma (Museum of Modern Art) and has been awarded by the IF Hannover and the Design Center Stuttgart. The clock was available in two designs: kitchen clock 331/9001 (dial with numbers) and kitchen clock 331/9000 (dial with bars).

Removable timer

Junghans kitchen clock with removable timer; second hand her not original; Design Udo Schultheiss

Junghans kitchen clock; timer removed; second hand her not original; Design Udo Schultheiss

The timer is fixed at the backside with a magnet in the case and stops time intervals up to 60 min. The second hand is not yet changed and not original.

The movement: Junghans W 707 ATO-MAT

Junghans kitchen clock with timer; back; Design Udo Schultheiss

Junghans kitchen clock with timer; Caliber Junghans W707 ATO-MAT; Design Udo Schultheiss

The watch is driven by the caliber Junghans W707, manufactured from 1964. The balance-wheel oscillator based on the ATO principle drives the balance, which oscillates at 18,000 A / h, through a small magnetic coil.

The case was the first kitchen clock made of the thermoplastic Luran 2 and the first kitchen timer with removable timer (KZM 3 = Kurzzeitmesser 3).

Udo Schultheiss designed the clock during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Prof. Warnecke. From the conception to the design, from the model to the construction everything bears the signature of Schultheiss. Plastic hands were used for the first time, and these are also designed by Udo Schultheiss, including the second hand, which carries an anodizing strip injected into a plastic bushing.