Ruhla Advertising & Catalogue Miscellany

Collected together on this page are miscellaneous images of advertising and catalogue pages or brochures from the pre war  Gebrüder Thiel company and the post war VEB UMF Ruhla watch range.  Most post war brochures produced were for trade organisations to show watches which Ruhla produced for wholesale distribution to earn foreign currency for the GDR. The post war catalogue pages are from West German consumer catalogues.

The images below may give you an idea of the kind of literature which exists.

Gebrüder Thiel – The deciding Factor for Watches – Late 1930s

Thiel Pocket Watch – For Sports – Late 1930s

Gebrüder Thiel Advert – To work! Thiel Pocket and Wristwatches 1930s

Thiel Autouhr Motorad Uhr / Car and Motorbike clocks 1930s

Thiel Quality Pocket Watches – Late 1930s

Thiel Wrist And Pocket Watches – Reliable And Affordable

Gebrüder Thiel Pocket Watches at the Leipzig International Fair – Late 1930s

Leipzig Trade Fair Catalogue 1956 (2)

Leipzig Trade Fair Catalogue 1956

UMF Ruhla Präzisa Advert 1958

Ruhla 1959 Materials Catalogue

UMF Ruhla Diva Advert 1959

Ruhla Catalogue listing 1960

UMF Ruhla Prazisa – Midnight is approaching already – Guaranteed time performance! Early 1960s

UMF Ruhla Pocket Watch 1960

UMF Ruhla Car Keyring – Der Deutsche Straßenverkehr Transpress VEB Verlag Für Verkehrswesen Berlin 11 Vol. 12-1963

Ruhla Electric Calibre 25 Advert 1965

Ruhla Sumatic – Versandhaus Katalog DDR 1971

Ruhla pin badge (post 1967)

Healthy food around the clock for Shift Workers 1976 – UMF Ruhla Duo Clock

UMF Ruhla-duoclock-large-bell-alarm-clock-chrome

Quelle Catalogue 1972-73

Genex Katalog 1977- Catalogue for Consumer Goods in East Germany (see below for full catalogue)

Genex Katalog 1977- Chronograph Top Row 1st and 2nd from left

Ruhla Promotional Book of Poems by Wolfgang Polte

A gift from VEB Uhrenwerke Ruhla in the VEB Combine Micro-electronics

Ruhla, Glashütte and Weimar

illustration

Details page

Quelle Catalogue 1980 – Ruhla Chronograph Item 8 – 52.50 Marks

UMF Caliber 25 Electric Movement Diagrams

UMF Ruhla Catalogue Page

Children’s School Timetable Plan produced by Ruhla

Ruhla Electric UMF 26 – First Price – 1970

Watches from Ruhla, Glashutte & Weimar – Essential time

Reverse of Children’s School timetable plan produced by Ruhla

Ruhla Quartz Eurochron Advert

Quelle Catalogue 1980 – Watches (items 3,4 & 9)

Ruhla Diver’s Watch Advertising

Ruhla Watch Brochure

Ruhla Watch Catalogue page

Ruhla Matchbox Labels

Genex 1986 – Catalogue for Consumer Goods in East Germany

Genex 1986 – Ruhla watches

Ruhla delivery lorry

125 Years of Watchmaking Ruhla – 35 Years of VEB – Book Cover image

Ruhla Advertising Placard

Ruhla Calendar Reverse

Ruhla Calendar

Contact with the Times – Ruhla Wristwatches

Geschenk in der DDR 1989 (Gifts in the GDR) – Clocks (Item 1) Ruhla Quartz Alarm Clock

Geschenk in der DDR 1989 (Gifts in the GDR) – Watches

VEB Uhren und Maschinenkombinat RUHLA – 1980s

VEB Uhren und Maschinenkombinat RUHLA – 1980s

Ruhla Ever there – Ruhla Quartz 1980s

GDR Watch Advert – this advertising video is for Glashütte watches which was one of the three main GDR watchbrands and formed part of the Kombinat along with Ruhla and Weimar.

Genex Catalogue 1977