Another day, another Junghans… This one is from Torsten’s collection, and I just love the dial and hands! The dial isn’t where it should be, and the crown is pulled out, the lugs are bent, and the case needs replating. Apart from that, it’s in good condition 😉
The bottom plate is in good shape.
Now that could do with some improving…
I like the central second jewel in the middle of the plate. A small spring presses the central second arbor against the jewel.
Off into the cleaning machine.
The lug is badly bent, and some of the gold plating has come off.
Whilst the case is at replateit.com, I put the movement back together.
The timegrapher image looks a lot better now. Â The case looks fantastic – Replateit.com has waved their magic wand again, and I’m very happy with the work. The lugs are all straight again as well.
Thank you for this article!
I am a hobby watchmaker and I just serviced a Junghans equipped with the same movement as yours.
I would appreciate it if you could give me a piece of advice regarding the center second pinion. It is supported by a copper (?) lever and I am not sure how can I lubricate it correctly. I would use Moebius 9010 for this purpose. Should I apply a bit of lubrication between the pinion and the lever or it is enough if I lubricate the jewel only?
Thank you for your help!
Gabor
Hi Gabor,
A bit of 9010 won’t hurt.
Kind regards,
Christian
Hi Christian,
thank you for your response and for your page/blog. For example, the lift angles table is permanently open on my phone.
Best wishes,
Gabor
I saw this one in Christian’s workshop and thought it looked really lovely. I’m sure it’s cost a good deal more than 35 Euros to get it back to this condition, but it’s been well worth it.
A true Classic!
Lovely movement, and nice to see something that might be written of as a lost case come back to life in such a nice way!
The movement adjustment seems a bit special? Any info on this??
Forgot to mention that – there should be a swan-neck like spring, but it’s half broken off – at least that’s what I think…
I think you are correct. Will get spare arts and come back to you.hints and come back to you. Looking at the stamps on the movement this one was produced in 1957.
First of all a big THANK YOU to Christian for bringing another watch back to life. I have been collecting Junghans watches for a while and came across this one on Ebay. Sold by a US seller I was able to buy this for a very reasonable Euro 35. The movement is an inhouse Junghans J82/1. These were produced between 1951-1960. Given the serial number this would be an early example. Amongst all the inhouse movements from Junghans this is at the upper end of the quality scale. (Like the J83, J84 and J85 families). The movement in its early version as seen here had a swan neck-like fine adjustment as most of these watches were sold with Chronometer certification.
In the fifties and sixties Junghans produced the third largest number of Chronometer certified watches after Rolex and Omega in Europe.
Chronometer quality watches without certification would later be sold under the Junghans Meister series to stay competitive as the certification process was costly.
This watch caught my eye because of the dial. The Junghans logo on this watch historically was used on Junghans pocket watches but not on wrist watches. I am not sure if the dial is a repaint but from a style perspective, logo, hands and movement all fit into the time period.
A lovely piece with a great solid movement. If Junghans was ever to produce there own mechanical movements this one would be a great one to revive.
There does look to me to be some suggestions that the dial was repainted; there is paint on some of the applied markers and a thicker blob of it between the 4 and 5 marker – also the blobs of luminous compound look irregular. I get the gut feeling, though, that this repaint would have been quite some time ago!
Even with that it looks like a bargain to me 😉
Hmm – or is that blob of paint where a dial pin is pressing through..?
Hmmm – small, but perfectly formed 😉
Some of the screw heads on that look to be quite well used…