Instruments · Stopwatch
Junghans 1/10 Second Stopwatch, 1960s
- Maker / attribution
- Junghans (maker)
- Date
- 1960s
- Historical period
- Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Object type
- Stopwatch
- Dimensions
- Case 55 mm
- Stock no.
- Product 6816331595863
- Credit line
- Dealer listing, Analog/Shift (product 6816331595863)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Junghans 1/10 Second Stopwatch (English)
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Record summary
Catalogued by Analog/Shift (dealer), New York (stock number Product 6816331595863), this is a stopwatch by Junghans, made in Germany, dated 1960s. The Atlas places it in the Modern Mechanical Horology period (1945 – 1969) of its Instruments collection. Recorded dimensions: Case 55 mm. 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
Dealer description — Analog/Shift
Sure, Analog:Shift is a business built around the love of watches — mostly mechanical watches. But, in essence, it’s our love for timepieces and timekeeping in general that are the common themes throughout the items we procure. And that includes the love of clocks in general: pocket watches, travel clocks, and more. After all, in the couple hundred years before the First World War, personal timekeeping was all about the pocket watch, and before that, it was larger clocks that were front and center, horologically. We still believe a good clock — such as a classic travel model from the 1920s or 1930s — has a place in the watch lover’s collection. This particular clock is a pocket stopwatch from Junghans, a German manufacturer that at one time produced the most clocks and timepieces of any company in the world. Dating from the 1960s and housed in a 55mm chrome-plated case with an acrylic crystal, a chrome-plated start/stop/rest crown, and a polished bezel, it features a matte white dial with a seconds totalizer at 2 o’clock, a minutes totalizer at 10 o’clock, a 1/10th-second totalizer at 6 o’clock, and blued steel chronograph hands. Its back is adorned with serial and model numbers, plus a personal engraving. With its unique dial arrangement that looks somewhat like a face and its mechanical movement that’s incredibly satisfying to use, this German-made stopwatch is equal parts starkly beautiful and highly utilitarian. Once you have it in your hands, we’re sure you’ll see what we mean!
Historical context
Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)
Tool watches for divers, pilots and astronauts; electric watches anticipate the electronic age.
Electronic instruments, quartz frequency standards and the first atomic clocks transformed precision timing in laboratories and broadcasting.
Read the period in the timelineMore instruments from this periodEarlier: Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking
Atlas type guide
Timers, stopwatches, chronoscopes and time recorders
Instruments for measuring short intervals or recording when something happened form a large and practical branch of horology. Sports stopwatches and split-seconds timers, laboratory chronoscopes (such as Hipp's, which measured thousandths of a second for psychology and ballistics experiments), metronomes for music, watchmen's clocks that recorded patrol rounds, and the time recorders that clocked factory workers in and out all derive from clock and watch technology.
These objects matter historically because they show timekeeping leaving the observatory and the drawing room and entering industry, science and sport. Many were mass-produced, and their dials, scales and patents chart the rise of electrification and industrial management.
What to look for
- Scales graduated in fifths, tenths or hundredths of a second, or decimal minutes for industrial use.
- Start, stop and reset push-pieces; a second hand that can be stopped independently (split seconds).
- Recording devices: paper discs or tapes, printing mechanisms, keys or punches.
- Patent numbers and dates on the dial or case, which give a terminus post quem.
Dating clues
- Hipp chronoscopes were made from the 1840s into the twentieth century.
- Employee time recorders spread from the 1890s (Bundy, IBM, International Time Recording Co.).
- Quartz and electronic timers replaced mechanical stopwatches in sport from the 1970s.
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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