With the decline of sales, Becker stopped selling complex clocks, and returned to making more simple designs. A well-known type of Black Forest clock is the Cuckoo clock. He won at clock fairs in London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin and Amsterdam.Ĭompetition with the Black Forest clockmakers ĭuring the 1880s, the Black Forest clockmakers began competing with Becker, with good quality, less-expensive models. Starting from fairly simple clocks, the clocks became complex and very ornamental, and sales rose to a peak in 1875, with over 300,000 clock orders. In the 1860s, he began to create the Classical Gustav Becker clocks. In 1854 he received large orders from the British Royal Mail, and the Silesian Telegraphy Centre.Īfter 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. His breakthrough came in 1852 at the Silesian Clock Fair.Ĭrowds were drawn to his works because of the quality, and he was awarded the gold medal for the best clock in the fair. 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.įirst, he created clocks in the Viennese model, and thanks to his success, in 1850 he moved his business to a better business centre. During his time in Vienna, he decided to start his own clock factory.īecker came back to Silesia in 1845, and got married. His great skills gave him the ability to fix clocks at the most intricate level. Biography Early life īecker learned clockmaking in Silesia and enriched his skills by learning from many masters around Germany which, during that era, was the most important country in the clock industry. Gustav Eduard Becker (in Oels, Silesia - Septemin Berchtesgaden) was a German clockmaker and founder of the brand Gustav Becker.
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