Badische watch factory
The Badische Uhrenfabrik Furtwangen AG (short form also "Baduf" or "Badische UFAG") was a German watch manufacturer based in Furtwangen .
history
In 1889, Badische Uhrenfabrik AG (Baduf) was founded from the three companies Rombach, Ketterer and the Gütenbach company Leo Faller am Bach & Sohn. The clocks were sold around the world around 1900, and the Badische Uhrenfabrik had its own branches in London, Milan, Zurich, Bombay and Hong Kong. At the beginning of the 1920s, Baduf employed 750 people and was one of the largest watch factories in the Black Forest. The production program included alarm clocks, cuckoo clocks, regulators, office and kitchen clocks.
In 1904 the entry was made in the then trademark protection register with the brand name Akribie . In 1910, so-called cantilever clocks were built in large numbers by the Badische Uhrenfabrik in the Black Forest . These clocks had a 2½ inch porcelain dial with Roman numerals and the specialty of this clock was a five-ball pendulum and the glass dome cover in Art Nouveau style.
From 1920 Baduf also manufactured radio sets , radio time switches, measuring instruments, loudspeakers, sound boxes, variometers and also single and multi-tube receivers for shortwave reception. In 1932 bankruptcy proceedings were initiated. The company was then taken over by Franz, Rudolf and Oskar Kaiser from Villingen. These were owned by the "J. Kaiser Villingen watch factories". In 1983 the second bankruptcy followed and the Schwarzwälder Uhrwerke-Fabrik Burger GmbH u. Co KG in Schonach took over production facilities for Baduf cuckoo clocks. In 1984 production in Furtwangen was completely stopped and operations were closed.
particularities
The imperial colonial clock, a wall clock with a metal plate, was a special feature . In the dial, a disc rotates with the small pointer that shows the local times of the former German colonial areas in Africa, China and the South Seas. This clock can be seen in the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen.
literature
- Hans-Heinrich Schmid : "Lexicon of the German watch industry 1850 - 1980: company addresses, production program, company logos, brand names, company histories." (3rd expanded edition 2017); Editor: German Society for Chronometry eV; ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1
- Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst; Clocks: a manual f. Collector u. Lover . Library for friends of art and antiques, 6th ed. Revised. v. Hans von Bertele, Braunschweig, publisher: Klinkhardt & Biermann 1969