Jon Osterman's Father was a watchmaker and the father of Jon Osterman.
Biography[]
Jon Osterman and his father resided in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City where the latter worked as a watchmaker. Hoping that his son would follow into his footsteps, he trained his son in the art of repairing watches.
On August 7, 1945, Jon's father reads the news of the Hiroshima bombing while he studies his father's clock cogs before school. Realizing the sheer power of atomic science, he throws his old pocket watch out of a window and pushes his son towards becoming a nuclear physicist rather than a watchmaker.
In 1959, Jon's father receives a telegram from the United States military informing him of his son's accidental disintegration. Following Jon's reemergence as the superpowered being Doctor Manhattan he never corrects their mistake, and his father spent the next decade until his death believing that his son had truly died. In 1969, Jon's father died alone in a hospital bed. Following his death, Jon received the news of his passing.
Trivia[]
- His first name in the original series is unknown, however, in two separate continuities, he is given a first name. In the DC Timeline, it's Josef and in the HBO Timeline, it's Hans. Both versions of the character immigrated to the United States from Germany to escape Nazi persecution.