Našel jsem ještě jeden příspěvěk...na to, jak málo se o nich na netu píše, to vypadá, že to zas úplný nýmandi nebyli :-)). Sorry, jsem línej články překládat. Původní konversace se nachází tady: http://www.equationoftime.com/forums/archi...hp/t-16261.html
A teď už jen ctrlC, ctrlV:
The manufacturer is the company Andreas Huber in Munich, Germany, Urania (BTW the name of the muse of astronomy in the mythology of ancient Greece) was the name of their manufactory for PWs and also their brand name.
Some facts about the history:
Andreas Huber, son of a family with a farm, butchery and an inn, learned and worked for a low budget at a watchmaker, sited in the city of Munich. In 1856, at the age of 25, he inherited 3.000 Gulden(usual currency in the German states, here: Kingdom of Bavaria, before the German Empire was founded in 1871 and the Goldmark as general currency replaced the old currencies in 1873). So he married the love of his life, Xaviera and opened his own watchmaker store and workshop in Munich at the Karlsplatz(better known as Stachus) - at that time a suburbian site. His workmanship had been excellent and his wife had been very competent in finding and keeping contacts to the high society, so inner a decade, he got a very good distinction. He delivered Remontoir-PWs and prestigious clocks to the bavarian royal family and to king Ludwig II..
In 1880, his son Joseph took over the company at the age of 19. He was very ambitious and in 1885, he opened an own production for PWs from silver and gold in the university district of Munich under the name Urania.
In 1912 he received the title "Königlich bayerischer Hoflieferant"(official supplier of the royal court of Bavaria).
The company had been very successful with their annual clocks, which had been delivered all over the world(after Joseph Huber bought a patent for construction and production) and with their military wristwatches in WWI and became larger and larger with dependances in other large german cities like Berlin, Düsseldorf, Nürnberg.
In 1920, his son Andreas II. took over the company with large debts, he consolidated the company and specialised in wristwatches, special clocks for time management e.g. in streetcars and stop watches. In 1930, the brandname Urania came back as top brand of their wrist watches(with IWC-movements, a jubilée-edition is still available). In 1936, the company became official timekeeper of the olympic winter games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. During WWII, the company produced for A. Lange & Söhne parts of the legendary military timepieces like the B-Uhr. In 1944, through the bombs of WWII, production and shops were completely destroyed.
1949, Andreas II. rebuilded the main house in Munich and reopened the watchmaker store and workshop. 1966 he died and his son Martin took over the company, well known as author of watch related books, one about A. Lange & Söhne and two about Patek Phillipe. He has no children and in 2002, the shop with meanwhile 2 dependances in Munich was sold to the Bucherer-group.
To the PW of your friend:
http://www.fototime.com/BFCDD7A6BAA32BD/standard.jpg
Engraved on the back, we find "Andreas Huber, Hoflieferant, München" - Andreas Huber, (official) supplier of the (bavarian royal) court, Munich. The company recieved the right to advertise with this title in 1912, so the PW was made 1912 or later.
http://www.fototime.com/2E25CDBFF07AD76/standard.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/67CAC9DC94B818E/standard.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/6337/uraniahuberoc4.jpg
The dial looks like the dial of a similar Urania-PW, I found in their official history. Obviously, the second scale in blue(13 - 24) was printed additional, belated on the dial. Probably the watch was used or destined as military timepiece and that´s the sense of this additional scale. Only the german airforce and marine had officially ordered and signed military watches at that time, members of the army had to use their own ones. So the watch should be made between 1912 and the beginning of the war, 1914/15. Later, wristwatches became more popular and the quality went down because of the absence of material, which had been needed to produce war-important goods like guns, rifles and munition.
Sources:
Andreas Huber in Uhren-Wiki (http://www.zeitgefuehl.de/uhren-wiki/index.php5?title=Andreas_Huber&phoenixs-db2_session=5b5454f70beedcf6a62fead38af6a804)
Andreas Huber official website (http://www.andreas-huber.de/jubilaeum/jubilaeum.html)
Andreas Huber official history and jubilée catalogue(1856 - 2006) (http://www.andreas-huber.de/Jubilaeumskatalog.pdf)
Bucherer group (http://www.bucherer.ch/de/standorte/standorte-deutschland.html)
Konrad Knirim: German military timepieces before 1945 (http://www.knirim.de/deutsch.htm)