Junghans Chronometer 1950s Dress Watch
Calibre Junghans J 82Condition — Gold-plated case with visible brassing at edges, dial shows light marking near subdial
Provenance — Bought at auction online, like most of what I keep.
Turning this one over is where my eye goes first: the caseback has worn back to base metal in a wide ring, the gold plating rubbed thin over the decades before it reached me. I find the dial has fared better — a warm silvered surface with gold arrow markers, applied Arabic numerals at 12, 2, 4, 8 and 10, and a small sunken seconds dial at six that has picked up a faint brown-grey cast with age. The gold dauphine hands still catch light cleanly, and the cushion case keeps crisp lug lines despite the plating thinning at the edges and on the crown. Open the back and the J82 manual movement sits fully exposed, gilt bridges and jewels legible, along with a serial I won't quote here. I'd suggest this one to someone who wants to see the mechanics as much as the dial.
Buying from a stranger, in short. Every fault I know of is in the listing, and if you find one I missed, the return stands. Take the watch to a watchmaker of your choosing before you pay — I have never once objected. Fourteen days to send it back, for any reason at all.
Privatverkauf. Everything described above — case, dial, hands, lume, rate and service history — is agreed condition for this watch and I stand behind all of it. Beyond that, the watch is sold excluding liability for material defects, as is normal between private individuals for a vintage mechanical object of this age. That exclusion does not cover anything I have misdescribed or failed to disclose, and never covers injury or intent.
Fourteen days to return it for any reason — my own promise, not a statutory withdrawal right. Terms · How I describe condition
