At a glance
A complicated calendar with fewer new parts
The annual-calendar specification names an ETA 2824-2 base and describes gear-driven date, month and weekday indications. That page lists five custom-designed functional parts, but describes three as additional parts. Those are different counting conventions, not interchangeable totals.
The annual-calendar page states hand assembly and regulation at La Chaux-de-Fonds and names external suppliers for components and finishing. 3
From Lucerne to La Chaux-de-Fonds
The company dates its founding to 2006 by Ludwig Oechslin, Beat Weinmann and Kurt König. The current company account says the Oechslin family owns the business; exact stakes and transfer dates are not given.
The news index records Beat Weinmann’s departure on 29 November 2019. March 2020 announcements distinguish closure of the Lucerne workshop from the move into La Chaux-de-Fonds. 12
People, production and attribution
ochs und junior is a distinct watch brand whose website identifies the company as ochs und junior AG. The business identifies its workshop at Rue Numa-Droz 143, La Chaux-de-Fonds, in Villa Grieshaber.
The company presents Oechslin as the designer of its watches and emphasizes simplified mechanisms and analog calendar displays. Its company description acknowledges specialist partners around Lucerne and La Chaux-de-Fonds, with leather and dial printing in Germany. 1
Continuity and the record today
The same page’s sweeping Swiss-manufacture wording must be read alongside its named German finishing option; it is not proof that every operation occurs inside one Swiss atelier. The company’s news index announces calendario quattro anni on 13 May 2026.
The news index announces an ochs und junior table-clock prototype on 24 July 2026; prototype status must not be upgraded to commercial production. An announcement dated 10 August 2026 advertises remaining due ore British Racing Green watches, supporting recent brand activity without verifying actual deliveries. 32
Ownership and continuity
ochs und junior is a distinct watch brand whose website identifies the company as ochs und junior AG. 1
Watchmakers and designers linked to ochs und junior AG
These people have a sourced relationship to this brand in the Enjoy Watches register. The label beside each name states the relationship recorded; it should not be read as a broader employment or ownership claim.
- Ludwig Oechslin — Founder / co-founder
Identification and service
For an individual watch, record the complete reference, serial, dial, case, and movement markings and compare them with dated primary documentation.
A brand history cannot authenticate, appraise, or establish the provenance of a particular watch.
Evidence and limits
How the claims are supported
- verified fact
ochs und junior is a distinct watch brand whose website identifies the company as ochs und junior AG.
- source stated claim
The company dates its founding to 2006 by Ludwig Oechslin, Beat Weinmann and Kurt König.
- source stated claim
The current company account says the Oechslin family owns the business; exact stakes and transfer dates are not given.
- source stated claim
The business identifies its workshop at Rue Numa-Droz 143, La Chaux-de-Fonds, in Villa Grieshaber.
- source stated claim
The company presents Oechslin as the designer of its watches and emphasizes simplified mechanisms and analog calendar displays.
- source stated claim
Its company description acknowledges specialist partners around Lucerne and La Chaux-de-Fonds, with leather and dial printing in Germany.
- source stated claim
The news index records Beat Weinmann’s departure on 29 November 2019.
- source stated claim
March 2020 announcements distinguish closure of the Lucerne workshop from the move into La Chaux-de-Fonds.
- source stated claim
The annual-calendar specification names an ETA 2824-2 base and describes gear-driven date, month and weekday indications.
- reasonable inference
That page lists five custom-designed functional parts, but describes three as additional parts. Those are different counting conventions, not interchangeable totals.
- source stated claim
The annual-calendar page states hand assembly and regulation at La Chaux-de-Fonds and names external suppliers for components and finishing.
- reasonable inference
The same page’s sweeping Swiss-manufacture wording must be read alongside its named German finishing option; it is not proof that every operation occurs inside one Swiss atelier.
- source stated claim
The company’s news index announces calendario quattro anni on 13 May 2026.
- source stated claim
The news index announces an ochs und junior table-clock prototype on 24 July 2026; prototype status must not be upgraded to commercial production.
- verified fact
An announcement dated 10 August 2026 advertises remaining due ore British Racing Green watches, supporting recent brand activity without verifying actual deliveries.
- reasonable inference
The evidence distinguishes Oechslin’s mechanism design, a separately constituted brand and external specialist supply rather than treating his name as the whole manufacture.
Known limits
- This identity dossier is not a complete catalogue of every watch or reference.
Direct sources
- About — ochs und juniorochs und junior AG · official company history · accessed September 15, 2026
Locator: Opening founders/ownership/location; design and partner-supplier discussion; legal-name footer, lines 52–77 and 104–108.. First-party source; its statements remain attributed.
- News — ochs und juniorochs und junior AG · dated company news index · accessed September 15, 2026
Locator: Dated entries: 29 November 2019; 5 and 27 March 2020; 13 May, 24 July and 10 August 2026.. First-party source; its statements remain attributed.
- Annual calendar watchochs und junior AG · official technical specification · accessed September 15, 2026
Locator: Mechanics, lines 241–267; Base Movement, lines 301–302; suppliers and assembly, lines 304–326.. First-party source; its statements remain attributed.
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