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Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" [message #12634 is a reply to message #12610]

Fri, 19 June 2020 16:22

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thesnark17 wrote on Thu, 18 June 2020 15:53

Which is smaller than 9 3/4. I do have an even smaller Dietrich Gruen movement somewhere around that *must* have come out of a women's watch...

I dunno. I had a rather large men's tank loaded with a little 8 3/4 ligne cal. 823.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Music/Hotlinking/i-nkrLwFK/1/07698fa8/XL/Weber%20with%20Bracelet-XL.jpg

A small movement doesn't necessarily mean a small watch. Although I don't have any reason to believe that there were not ladies watches with Dietrich Gruen on the dial.

Ephemerald wrote on Thu, 18 June 2020 16:08

Personally I think you could call this a unisex model.

It reminds me a lot of Strap 88, which is unisex, I have one engraved w a man's name and another engraved w a woman's.

I don't think of Strap 88 as unisex. It's in the men's section of the Master Book, which makes it a men's model in my mind. Of course, it's not terribly uncommon to see a men's watch from this era with a ladies' inscription. But that doesn't make it unisex, IMO.

That said, there are examples of men's watches being specifically marketed to both sexes, so I think it would be fair to call them unisex. Strap 16/26 and 17 are examples that comes to mind:

https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Gruen-Guild-Book-7-1929/i-ZNvTNB8/0/acf4f76c/O/page083.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Gruen-Guild-Book-7-1929/i-4zq49Jj/0/95b82211/O/page147.jpg

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		Caliber 89 (Extra Precision) – 8.75'" 18J, All Adjustments By: thesnark17 on Thu, 18 June 2020 01:39
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Thu, 18 June 2020 02:10
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: thesnark17 on Thu, 18 June 2020 13:01
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Barney Green on Thu, 18 June 2020 13:23
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: afire on Thu, 18 June 2020 17:22
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Thu, 18 June 2020 18:18
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Barney Green on Thu, 18 June 2020 19:19
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: thesnark17 on Thu, 18 June 2020 20:53
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Ephemerald on Thu, 18 June 2020 21:08
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: afire on Fri, 19 June 2020 16:22
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Sun, 28 June 2020 18:52
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: afire on Mon, 29 June 2020 16:38
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Tue, 30 June 2020 13:36
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Thu, 18 June 2020 20:54
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: C. Hurt on Sat, 04 July 2020 22:05
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Case on Sun, 05 July 2020 03:14
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: C. Hurt on Sun, 05 July 2020 14:00
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: Barney Green on Sun, 05 July 2020 16:28
		Re: Caliber 151 - (Extra) Precision - 5 1/2 '" By: thesnark17 on Mon, 06 July 2020 00:07
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