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Import 88 [message #9679]

Wed, 16 January 2019 22:30

afire
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Location: Wisconsin

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Model name : Import 88
Type : Quadron
Period/date : Circa 1930
Gender : Men's

Case Maker : Weber
Case Material : 14k white gold with rose gold accents
Case Serial : 200445
Case Style no : N/A

Caliber : 119
Movement Maker : Gruen
Movement Serial: 659400

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Re: Import 88 [message #9680 is a reply to message #9679]

Wed, 16 January 2019 22:32

afire
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Spotted this old eBay auction and thought it worth entering here. Mercifully, I didn't spot it when it was on eBay, because I wouldn't have been able to keep myself from going after it. Oddly, it doesn't quite grab me the way some do. I feel like the articulated lugs are too big or somehow not proportionate. I guess I'd have to see it with a leather band to know for sure.

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Re: Import 88 [message #9682 is a reply to message #9680]

Wed, 16 January 2019 23:14

Barney Green
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What a beauty! Love that watch!
And I agree, I think it will look even better with a nice leather strap.

Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)

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Re: Import 88 [message #9685 is a reply to message #9682]

Thu, 17 January 2019 00:01

timeliz
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Location: Northern California

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Nice! I agree...I think it would look much better with a leather strap.

"Some days are diamonds, some days are stones..." -John Denver

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Re: Import 88 [message #9689 is a reply to message #9685]

Thu, 17 January 2019 02:28

kastner
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Location: Pasadena CA

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I agree on the leather strap. I love the accents on this, very nice find Liz.

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Re: Import 88 [message #9692 is a reply to message #9689]

Thu, 17 January 2019 03:45

timeliz
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Thanks, but I didn't find it. Very Happy

But if I had, I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to afford it.

"Some days are diamonds, some days are stones..." -John Denver

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Re: Import 88 [message #9694 is a reply to message #9692]

Thu, 17 January 2019 04:02

Barney Green
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And it can even be tracked down to a famous owner running a pipeline company and having been the president of the PIEA which later became the ENTELEC.

Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)

[Updated on: Thu, 17 January 2019 04:03]

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Re: Import 88 [message #9695 is a reply to message #9692]

Thu, 17 January 2019 05:14

afire
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timeliz wrote on Wed, 16 January 2019 21:45

Thanks, but I didn't find it.
But if I had, I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to afford it.

Hence my comment about it being merciful that I missed it myself. I couldn't have afforded it either, but by I know darned well I would have engineered some clever excuse that would have permitted me to bid well above my means. Laughing

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