Gustav Becker

In 1847, he settled in Freiburg, Lower Silesia (now Świebodzice, Poland), and that April he opened a small clock shop with a few employees to whom he taught clockmaking.

After the orders, he received a fortune from the Duke of Martibore, and with this money he could pay enough to make clock cases for train stations.

With the decline of sales, Becker stopped selling complex clocks, and returned to making more simple designs.

After the Second World War, the Gustav Becker factory's location was transferred from Germany to Poland, and clock production there ceased.

Junghans continued to exist in West Germany, but clocks bearing the Becker brand were no longer produced.