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Sun, 10 January 2021 15:45   |
thesnark17
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No, it's original. I took off the barrel bridge and the cock, and the SNs match. Also, you can see that the plate SN and the winding bridge SN line up.
That balance cock is original. And that SN is original. And the winding apparatus is original. Because they can't not be, with matching numbers...
And that's leaving aside the other oddities, like the nickel-plated edges on the pallet fork cut-out.
The strangest thing to me, thinking about it, is the simple regulator. Any of the movements most similar to this one use micrometric regulators, and this one is just as highly adjusted (or at least claims to be). The only V-series caliber that never used a fancy regulator is the V7, which may also have been prototyping out at this time.
I mean, everybody made experimental movements - the only particular oddity about Gruen is that apparently they sold theirs as regular watches. But the regulator doesn't match anything else from this period.
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Re: The Caliber ... [I guess I get to name it, but I'm just speechless right now]
By: Case on Sun, 10 January 2021 19:21 |
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By: Case on Mon, 11 January 2021 04:01 |
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By: Jenneke on Mon, 20 November 2023 05:17 |
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By: JackW on Tue, 21 November 2023 01:04 |
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By: JackW on Tue, 13 February 2024 14:10 |
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Re: The Caliber ... [I guess I get to name it, but I'm just speechless right now]
By: Jenneke on Tue, 13 February 2024 23:37 |
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