Please note that this brief history focuses on the Smiths as house watchmakers. The parent society had enormous ramifications (summarized to some extent in the origins chapter), but this history is concerned only with watches. In 1931 Smith, then called S Smith and Sons (Car Accessories) Ltd., decided to enter the domestic and watch market […]
In 1844 Friedrich Mauthe and his wife Maria founded a company in Schwenningen to produce watch parts. In the late 1860s the Mauthes began producing their own wall clocks (and movements). Some were produced on themes, so-called “Gewerblern”, others were produced in a more “industrial” way. In 1876 their sons Mauthe (1845-1909) and James (1847-1915) […]
In 1860, the merchant Erhard Junghans, together with his brother Jakob Zeller-Tobler, founded an oil factory in Schramberg, which from an economic point of view was a failure. In 1861 Erhard Junghans founded with his brother Xaver Junghans in Schramberg – Gebrüder Junghans. After he returned from the United States of America he began manufacturing […]
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