Vintage chess clock, complete, boxed and in good working order, Jerger "Chess Champion". The clock is in a Bakelite case with brushed gilt front panel and coming in a recessed cardboard wood effect box. Both box and clock are in excellent condition. The clockworks used for the production of Jerger clocks were provided by Peter Uhren GmbH. The company goes back to Wilhelm Jerger, the uncle of Adolf Jerger, who had started a business as a clockmaker in 1866 in Niedereschach. Adolf Jerger worked as an apprentice for his uncle until he founded his own business in 1905, producing the well known Jerger chess clocks until the insolvency of the company in the late 1980's. In 1914, the company of Wilhelm Jerger in Niedereschach was in crisis. Bankruptcy could be avoided, when the company was taken over by Andreas Peter. In 1924 a new headquarter was set up in a new company building in Rottweil, so that only a branch remained in Niedereschach, which was later supplemented by another branch in Irslingen. In 1966, the company moved into a new building next to the old factory in Neckarstraße. Since 1967, Peter-Uhren GmbH has been cooperating with the French watch manufacturer JAZ S.A., so that most of the clockworks used for later Jerger clocks are in fact JAZ clockworks. The clock base measures 14.6cm wide and the clocks stand 8.7cm high.