Clocks · Clock
Clock by Junghans, Germany, 1920s–1930s
- Maker / attribution
- Junghans (maker)
- Date
- 1920s–1930s
- Historical period
- Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking (1900 – 1945)
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Place
- Germany
- Object type
- Clock
- Materials / technique
- metal
- Dimensions
- diameter 20 cm, height 5,1 cm.
- Holding institution
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
- Accession / object no.
- E07004:387
- Credit line
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (via Finna)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Kello; Tuurimoottorin kello, Vuoromoottorin kello (Finnish)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (object number E07004:387), this is a clock by Junghans, made in Germany, dated 1920s–1930s. The Atlas places it in the Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking period (1900 – 1945) of its Clocks collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: metal. Recorded dimensions: diameter 20 cm, height 5,1 cm. The record is illustrated with 1 photograph.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Description — Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
Metallista valmistettu lieriönmallinen, pyöreä ja litteähkö kello, jossa mekaaninen vetojousikoneisto. Kellon reunassa kolme tasaisin välein sijoitettua kapeaa, metallilevystä leikattua kielekettä, joissa reikä kellon pystytasoon kiinnittämistä varten. Pyöreä reunakappale pinnaltaan sileä ja suora, takaseinään muotoiltu keskelle pyöreä ulkoneva alue ja etuseinässä kapea kehysmäinen ulkonema kellotaulua reunustamassa. Kellotaulu vaalea (emaloitu?) metallilevy, jossa mustalla painetut merkinnät. Tuntiviisari lyhyt ja päästään pisaran mallinen, minuuttiviisari kapea, pitkä ja molemmilta sivuiltaan loivasti kaareva, kärkeä kohti suippeneva. Viisareiden alla pyöreä metallireunuksinen aukko, josta pistää esiin vetomekanismin tappi. Kellotaulun oikeassa reunassa kapea metallitapillinen saranamainen osa, jossa mahdollisesti ollut kiinnitettynä kellotaulua suojaava lasi. Kellon mekanismi sisältä kuuluvien kolinoiden perusteella ainakin osittain irrallaan.
Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.
Inscriptions & marks
Kellon takapuolelle kirjoitettu käsin musteella merkinnät: "8/I 1938" sekä "12/63 Mit 225-". Lisäksi on kaiverrettu merkintä: "kiitos 7,7,52 FWK; RK". Keskelle kellon takasivua liimattu pala arkistokelpoista, läpinäkyvää teippiä, jossa käsin mustekynällä kirjoitettu sana, josta ei saa selvää. Kellotaulussa mustalla painetut numerot 1 - 12 sekä 13 - 24. Kellotaulun keskustassa ympyrän muotoon asetetut sekuntimerkinnät sekä tasanumerot 10 - 60. Pistekehän ulkopuolella numero 10:n kohdalla kirjain F ja numero 50:n kohdalla kirjain S. Viisareiden alla pieni, kahdeksansakaraisen tähden mallinen logo, jossa teksti UNGHANS ja alla kirjain J.
Historical context
Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking (1900 – 1945)
The wristwatch displaces the pocket watch; waterproof cases, self-winding and grand complications.
Between 1900 and 1945 clocks were electrified: master-clock systems ran factories and offices, synchronous mains clocks entered homes, and the Shortt free-pendulum clock set new standards of accuracy before the first quartz clocks (1927). Art Deco design reshaped mantel and table clocks.
Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Industrial Revolution
Atlas type guide
Domestic clocks
A clock combines four systems: a source of power (falling weight, coiled spring, or later electricity), a gear train that divides time, an escapement and oscillator that regulate it (foliot, pendulum or balance), and an indicating system of dial and hands or a bell. Its history runs from the large iron weight-driven clocks of the late thirteenth century to Renaissance spring-driven table clocks, the pendulum revolution of 1656, the factory clocks of the nineteenth century and electric and quartz clocks of the twentieth.
Domestic clocks also reflect regional furniture and decorative traditions — English longcase and bracket clocks, French pendules, Viennese regulators, Black Forest and American shelf clocks — and therefore record changing tastes as much as technical progress.
What to look for
- How the clock is powered: weights, spring barrel, fusee, electric coil.
- The oscillator: foliot, short pendulum, long seconds pendulum or balance.
- Whether it strikes: hour only (count wheel) or hours and quarters (rack striking).
- The maker or retailer's name on dial and movement, and any factory trademarks.
- Signs of alteration — replaced dials, converted escapements, 'married' cases.
Dating clues
- Before 1656 clocks used foliots or balances; after, most domestic clocks have pendulums.
- Anchor escapements spread after c. 1670; minute hands became common at the same time.
- Factory production in America and Germany transformed prices after c. 1840.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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