1956year Max Bill's kitchen clock began the Junghans collaboration
1,060Edition Set 60 sets made for the 60th anniversary
150gold max bill Chronoscopes for Junghans' 150th anniversary
- 1956 to 1958
A kitchen clock from Ulm
The collaboration began in 1956 with a kitchen clock that Max Bill developed with his students at the Ulm School of Design, around Junghans' eight-day Exacta movement and a ceramic case. A table clock followed two years later.
- 1961 to 1962
The dial moves to the wrist
In 1961 the clock's dial and its squared numerals passed into a range of mechanical wristwatches, which Junghans calls the cornerstone of Bill's watch line. Junghans' own later catalogue dates the designs to 1962.
- 2010
A modern trio
For 2010 Junghans released three new mechanical models of the classic: a 34 mm hand-wound, a 38 mm automatic with date and a 40 mm Chronoscope, all under a domed, hardened Plexiglas crystal.
- 2018 to 2021
Radio control and sunlight
A softgold-toned max bill Automatic won a Red Dot Design Award in 2018. The radio-controlled, solar-powered max bill MEGA Solar in titanium then took the Red Dot: Best of the Best in 2021, sixty years after the original was unveiled.
- 2021
Sixty years on the wrist
For the 60th anniversary of the wristwatches Junghans issued the max bill Edition Set 60, three watches limited to 1,060 sets, with the number 60 hidden in the minute track.
- 2024
Red doors from Dessau
The Bauhaus series grew to three models with the max bill Regulator Bauhaus, sharing matte steel, a white dial and red accents on hands and date. Junghans links the red to the doors of the Bauhaus building in Dessau.
✦2021. The max bill MEGA Solar won the Red Dot: Best of the Best in Product Design, from more than 7,800 entries from 60 countries.
✦2011. For its 150th anniversary Junghans issued a max bill Chronoscope in 18-carat yellow gold, limited to 150 pieces worldwide.
✦2011. Junghans states that Bill's wall clock and his mechanical wristwatches are held by the Museum of Modern Art.