AUTOMOBILE DESIGN
If you take a trip back in time to the 1930s when steel chassis and hand-wrought struts were at the forefront of automobile technology, when cars use to be designed with streamlined curves over the wheel arches and the tops were usually leather. Still to this day experts are fascinated by the designs and mechanical innovation of these machines. It was in this era that speed became important along with longer distances which were both measured with speedometers so that they could monitor and measure these. The cockpits of these fast moving cars began to get a set feature and arrangement that we still see in cars today. One of the most important elements on the dashboard is the speedometer, with its total and daily tally of kilometres. These design features are incorporated into the new Meister Driver Day Date for the date and day displays with their white text on a contrasting black background.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW IN VIEW
The designers at Junghans have drawn inspiration from the display of total and daily kilometres in creating the Meister Driver Day Date: the day and date displays are in the form of rotating columns which is inspiration they have taken directly from the 1930s automobiles. The unique form of this display, which features semi-transparent surfaces to the side of the actual date and weekday display, is enabled by individual printing in the in-house dial printing facility. The watches are available in a range of colours, the colours have been inspired by the tachometers of the 1930s: they have refined these and partnered them with polished paintwork to convey a very special flair. With a diameter of 40 mm, the new Meister Driver Day Date is a three-handed watch with an independent character.
MEISTER DRIVER DAY DATE FEATURES
| Movement: | J800.4 self-winding movement with a power reserve of up to 38 hours, rapid date correction Special feature: Weekday display at 12 o’clock and date at 6 o’clock Finishing: Rotor surface with stripe finishing and engraved logo, diamond cut on barrel, train and balance bridge, blued screws |
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| Case: | Stainless steel Ø 40.4, height 11.9 mm, mineral crystal back, convex plexiglass with coating for enhanced scratch resistance, 5-times screwed glass back | |
| Dial: | Convex dial with effective polished lacquer, hour or minute markers with an environmentally-friendly Super Luminova luminous material | |
| Hands: | Black-coated Dauphin hands with environmentally-friendly Super Luminova luminous material | |
| Strap: | Calfskin strap with stainless steel buckle and lining leather with perfora-tion, stainless steel strap with folding clasp | |
| Water resistance: | up to 3 bar |
JUNGHANS MEISTER DRIVER – PASSION AND THE PIONEERING SPIRIT
The strong links between Junghans and the automobile have been in place since the end of the 19th century. Arthur Junghans, son of the company founder Erhard Junghans, was a close friend of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. As a consequence, he bought one of the first Daimler test cars in 1892. Just three years later Arthur Junghans ordered a four-seater Motor-Viktoriawagen, for which he created worm gear steering. At the beginning of the 20th century the company produced car clocks. Numerous inventions were also made – in 1905 Dr. Oskar Junghans, son of Arthur Junghans, developed a speed measuring device with integral speed logging. His brother Helmut shared his passion for the automobile. In 1924, he developed a “Viadicator” driving direction indicator in co-operation with the Leitz company of Wetzlar, a predecessor of the present-day indicator. More than a century of affinity for the automobile is continued today by the Junghans owners, Dr. Hans-Jochem and Hannes Steim. The Steim car collection in Schramberg, which celebrates its 10th birthday in 2017, contains a cross section from over 110 years of automobile history – with stylish classic vehicles that serve as inspiration for the models of the Meister Driver series, bringing this passion to the wrist.
