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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13193 is a reply to message #13190] |
Sun, 09 August 2020 11:32   |
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Barney Green
Messages: 1581
Registered: February 2014
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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As most of you know, the majority of my collection is also ladies watches. But I do not wear them. Just the mens models are worn by me, and mainly smaller models, because I also have small wrists. The biggest watch I ever wore was a 39mm diameter round model, and it looked a little odd at my wrist. The Imperial Tank is the best fit to my wrist though it is a bid long already. But it has a nicely curved back and I love wearing it.
Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13197 is a reply to message #13193] |
Sun, 09 August 2020 14:42 |
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I can't put a finger on why I have them.
-They are cheap, we'll used to be...
-Got tired of the yellow gold of the other eras
-Its hip to be square 
-All of gents watches of the era have been hoarded, we have no choice
-I feel all inclusive. I'd be missing out on more than half of the conversations here.
Gruenites are very unique for these reasons. There are very few men out in the wild who collect ladies timepieces IMHO.
Yes I do wear them, I think along the 30's era we have some unisex pieces that look good on both.
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13207 is a reply to message #13190] |
Sun, 09 August 2020 20:30 |
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Ephemerald
Messages: 704
Registered: October 2018
Location: City of Lake Salt
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Jenneke, I typically wear my Lady Gruens on special occasions...like when I go out dancing dressed to the nines in my Joyce Hubrite fun-every-minute Gruen dress. 
Sometimes my gf will wear one, a cartouche but she has her own style & isn't interested in most of the design I love.
I'm just interested in all the Gruens, y'know? They are such a diverse brand spanning decades of different designs that I think I sometimes am attracted to a ladies model. I think of myself as...collecting gruen watches. I actually do not have that many womens models.... relatively speaking.
Sometimes I purchase a watch just to answer a question I have. I study it to learn.
But yes, I really like small watches, I picked up this Strap 401 bc it's the smallest round (oval) dial I could find. Anyone know a smaller men's *dial* than this?
Matthias
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13231 is a reply to message #13214] |
Mon, 10 August 2020 18:11 |
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afire
Messages: 1002
Registered: May 2013
Location: Wisconsin
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I've got no issues with small men's watches. My current favorite, and smallest, was cataloged by Gruen as a men's watch, but I know that Alpina also marketed it as a ladies' sports watch.
If I can get my '36 Master off the ground, that will be may absolute smallest, and I will happily wear it.
I'm always keeping an eye out for a 1934 Varsity.
Would I wear it? Yes, but I'd have to keep a copy of this ad in my back pocket to prove that it is a men's watch.
And should anybody wonder whether wearing a dainty watch is unmanly, I would direct them to one Mr. Huber Scott-Paine, aircraft and boat designer, record-breaking power boat racer, entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of Supermarine (of Spitfire fame).
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13236 is a reply to message #13234] |
Mon, 10 August 2020 19:31 |
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Barney Green
Messages: 1581
Registered: February 2014
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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The Varsity had been yellow gold filled, caliber 306.
Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13237 is a reply to message #13212] |
Mon, 10 August 2020 19:43 |
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Ephemerald
Messages: 704
Registered: October 2018
Location: City of Lake Salt
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What caliber is in this? Anyway should be pre Veri-Thin, 1936.
I haven't been able to find a model name for this version of yours without dub or sweep seconds. I like these models a lot.... I still think I have ya beat for smallest dial on Strap 401.
Matthias
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13244 is a reply to message #13243] |
Tue, 11 August 2020 09:06 |
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Barney Green
Messages: 1581
Registered: February 2014
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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These Tresor watches were all based on round movements. So no chance for a 157 in there...
Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13246 is a reply to message #13190] |
Tue, 11 August 2020 19:26 |
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Ephemerald
Messages: 704
Registered: October 2018
Location: City of Lake Salt
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I realized, as I was about to post some ads, that my interest in Lady Gruens is a direct out growth of my love of early Gruen history and early wrist watch history.
Matthias
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13501 is a reply to message #13431] |
Thu, 27 August 2020 18:47 |
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Case
Messages: 752
Registered: May 2019
Location: Cincinnati
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Never seen the braided leather option. Funky fo sho! Thanks for sharing!
My two caveats:
1) I'm wrong many times a day --just ask my wife!
2) Always seeking to learn more
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