Junghans Mantel Clock

Having gone round the house turning the clocks, watches, television back an hour, I thought my Junghans Mantel Clock deserved a blip  -  it has kept the same time for probably the last forty years and passed to me as part of family legacy.  The German Black Forest located Junghans company was founded in 1861. By 1903 it employed 3,000 workers and sold 3 million clocks a year, making it the biggest clock factory in the world. They are still in the forefront of timekeeping devices. 
The eight-pointed star, which features on my clock face, became the brand symbol in 1890, so the clock could date from around that time.  But of particularly interest to me studying the history of photography at the moment, was that as the official timekeeper at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, Junghans’ new measuring methods, including measuring time accurate to a 100th of a second using the first colour photographs of the finish line, saw the revolution of sports time keeping.