Junghans Form watches

The Junghans Form is a line of plain, Bauhaus-influenced watches that Junghans brought to Baselworld 2017. The Form A, the A standing for automatic, is the three-hand model. Its partner, the Form C, is a quartz chronograph in a 40 mm case, 10.5 mm thick, with sub-dials at 12 and 6 o'clock. Fratello found the design very close to the brand's Max Bill watches.

The Form A case is 39.1 mm across and 9.5 mm thick, a steel bowl with short lugs. The slightly concave, matt silver-plated dial has squared minute markers recessed into its outer edge, a recessed date window at 3 o'clock and three central hands, the hour and minute hands each carrying a thin line of lume. Sapphire covers the dial, and a tinted sapphire caseback shows the movement. That movement is the self-winding J800.2, based on the ETA 2824, with a quick-set date and 38 hours of power reserve.

The references differ in two things: the hour markers and the strap. The 027/4731.00, on black calf, and the 027/4735.00, on blue calf, are the Arabic versions, with numerals for the hours. The 027/4730.00, on black calf, and the 027/4734.00, on brown calf, use stick indices instead. The five-minute numerals on the outer track are printed in red, beige or blue depending on the strap, and each strap closes with a steel pin buckle. Case, dial colour and movement stay the same throughout.