1927 Tank 13 [message #8336] |
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Messages: 1331 Registered: May 2013 Location: Wisconsin
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Model name : Tank 13
Type : Wristwatch
Period/date : Circa 1925
Gender : Men's
Case Maker : Gruen Cincinnati
Case Material : 18k White Gold, Black Vitreous Enamel
Case Serial : 1127104
Case Style no : N/A
Caliber : 115
Movement Maker : In-house
Movement Serial: 623407
Hand engraved case "rails" sides and back, hard-fired enamel inlay between the lugs, similar to a couple of Cincinnati-cased Quadron models with the same case details. The listing for Tank 13 in the Master Book shows a different case, also 18k engraved, but a different pattern with no enamel, and this case doesn't show up at all, which initially had me thinking it might be uncatalogued. But then I looked in the 1927 Stock Record Book, and sure enough, there it is listed as Tank 13. I've noticed this with a few models.
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