Museum piece
The open brass structure is supported by four slender columns and crowned with an ornamental top featuring a lily motif. The movement and torsion pendulum are visible beneath the tall glass dome. The light-coloured dial with black Arabic numerals and a fine minute track contrasts with the brass. A round brass base completes the design. The pendulum is the characteristic five-ball pendulum used by BADUF.
Inside is the original mechanical 400-day movement with a torsion pendulum. The movement has been cleaned, overhauled, professionally lubricated, adjusted and tested. The clock is fully functional and runs reliably.
Manufacturer
Furtwangen · Black Forest – Baden-Württemberg · Germany
Badische Uhrenfabrik AG, known as Baduf, was founded in Furtwangen in 1889. It emerged from the firms Rombach, Ketterer and the Gütenbach clock factory Leo Faller am Bach & Sohn. Around 1900, its clocks were sold worldwide, with branches in London, Milan, Zurich, Bombay and Hong Kong, among other cities. In the early 1920s, Baduf employed around 750 people and ranked among the major clock manufacturers of the Black Forest.
Its products included alarm clocks, cuckoo clocks, regulators, office clocks and kitchen clocks. The trademark “Akribie” was registered in 1904. From 1910, Baduf produced large numbers of free-swinging clocks with five-ball pendulums and glass domes. From 1920, its range expanded to include radio receivers, radio-controlled switching clocks, measuring instruments, loudspeakers and other electronic devices.
Bankruptcy proceedings began in 1932. The J. Kaiser clock factories of Villingen took over the business. Following another bankruptcy in 1983, Schwarzwälder Uhrwerke-Fabrik Burger acquired production equipment for cuckoo clock movements. Clock production in Furtwangen ended in 1984 and the business was dissolved.