| Re: Gruen Veri-Thin 1939-1942 [message #5956 is a reply to message #5955] |
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Barney Green
Messages: 1747
Registered: February 2014
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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Steve,
welcome to the Gruen forum! You did already do a very good job describing the watch and seem to have investigated very well. Indeed your watch was produced between 1939 and 1942, in fact it has been built 1941 or 1942.
The model is called the Veri-Thin Broadway, has a 15 jewel caliber 381 movement. It was the only Gruen pocket watch model that came in a Guildite case with pink gold-filled trim at that time. It was the entry model of their pocket watches with a suggested retail price of $33.75. A year later Gruen was not allowed to use their Guildite called stainless steel for watch production because these materials had to go into weapon production. In the 1942/43 produced watches the steel was replaced by silver.
Keep an eye on it, it is a nice watch!
Best regards
Bernd
Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)
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