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Re: Strap 320: Tilton [message #5235 is a reply to message #5180] Mon, 09 March 2015 21:02 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
MikeTheWatchGuy
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Jason, here's an ID from the Model ID Guide Vol 2 page 44.

index.php?t=getfile&id=2194&private=0

This one shows a cord strap. It wasn't until a 1938 ad that I saw a metal strap on one of these.

There is one advertised with the description "Black dial. Yellow gold hands and numerals" and another with a black dial that almost perfectly matches Jason's.

A nice illustration of a black dial model is on page 94 of The 1930's.

I noticed a phase in the 1930s where a number of men's watches are slender and small. They are easy enough to confuse with a women's watch that many of the ads explicitly point out it's a men's watch. I'm surprised Gruen decided to launch the Tilton with a cord bracelet rather than a metal one.
 
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