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50th Anniversary Pocket Watch
Tue, 27 December 2022 18:53
Model name : 50th Anniversary
Type : Pocket watch
Period/date : 1924 (The movement was made in 1924, but it is unclear when this watch was cased and sold)
Gender : Men's
Case Maker : Gruen Cincinnati
Case Material : 18kt white gold
Case Serial : 1072311
Case Style no : none
Case Inscription (inside caseback): "Made Especially for Gilbert J Easton"
Caliber : See below
Movement Maker : Gruen
Movement Serial: 204
Movement details from Priceless Possessions of A Few by Fuller.
- 17-linge (approximately 10-size) open face, 23 jewels (21 extra quality ruby jewels, plus two faceted diamond cap jewels over escape wheel and balance wheel pivots on upper plates)
- 12kt gold plates (total 19 penny weight), individually engraved in floral relief pattern
- Steel cup in each counter-bored hole for plate screws
- Follow-up die used to slightly bevel around edge of spoke and inside rim of wheels
- Gold plated train wheels
- Chronometer style balance with solid gold screws
- Detachable staff which can be removed without disturbing relationship of balance hairspring, collet, and roller jewel
- Jewel pin fastened in balance arm with a bearing twice the length of the usual watch, making it doubly secure against coming loose
- Double steel roller
- Hand finished visible steel escapement with posing arms
- Patent micrometic regulator of continuous equal action
- Meantime adjusting gold screws
- True isochronal and Breguet hairspring
- Finest Swiss mainspring of lasting quality and great elasticity made by hand-rubbing so that the motive power is practically constant whether watch is fully wound or nearly run down
- Patented American pendant-set device of very few pieces
- Geneva style stop works and cut-away barrel bridges
- Eight adjustments to all positions, isochronism and temperature
- Fine Silver dial
- Patented inverted (Verithin) wheel train construction
- Extra finely finished in all details
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1920's |
10 comments
E. Gubelin Lucerne
Marked DG&S on the movement; Fri, 04 November 2022 17:17
Here is an interesting one currently on the swamp. We've always seen these Gubelin's and the relationship to the guilds but this one has the Gruen markings to go with it.


Cheers!
Watches from the Guild |
3 comments
The bat box
Tue, 19 July 2022 11:57
Now this can be called an innovative and unique watch box. Wonder if they made just one...
A solid gold autowind presented to Cincinnati Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski in November 1955. This "box" should be worth some money...

1950s |
2 comments
Unknown early ladies' caliber
Mon, 18 July 2022 02:44
Model name: --
Type: pocket watch
Period/date: c. 1910s
Gender: women
Caliber: unknown
Size: 10''' (22.5mm)
Jewel count: 16 or (more likely) 17
Movement Maker: unknown, possibly LeCoultre
Movement Serial: 7001
Movement markings: Gruen Adjusted Swiss


Condition: not running, lower balance pivot is mushroomed
1910's and prior |
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