Junghans Gustav Becker Kitchen Clock

Kitchen Clock Junghans

Movement: Gustav Becker

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

In the not only for the watch companies difficult economic years 1925/26, Junghans, the company HAU (Hamburg-Amerkanische Uhrenfabrik), also based in Schramberg, and the company Vereinigte Freiburger Uhrenfabriken Aktiengesellschaft, formerly Gustav Becker, based in Silesia (Germany), formed a community of interests on July 1, 1926.

However, the companies' products retained their respective factory brands. On 01.07.1930 the companies merged under the name Uhrenfabriken Gebrüder Junghans AG.

In the end, Junghans had to shut down the Freiburg operations in 1932, shaken by the crisis.

The clock shown is from the final phase and dates from around 1932.

The movement: Gustav Becker

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

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Junghans kitchen clock with Gustav Becker-movement

The trademark on the clock was used between 1923 and 1933.

Junghans used a date code on its clcoks. The number embossed on the movement plate (32 12) could mean: December 1932