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Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank [message #15456 is a reply to message #15451]

Fri, 10 September 2021 14:58

afire
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Okay, so not a 1670. The ID hunt continues, though I can certainly accept that it may never materialize.
Jenneke wrote on Fri, 10 September 2021 01:22

But if there is one picture, there must be more!

I was thinking along the same lines, and hopefully that's true. But looking at those pictures, they are photographs of the watches, and not really consistent with any Gruen photography I'm familiar with. For example, Gruen was consistent about photographing and illustrating watches at 8:20. These are all set to around 9:23. My guess would be that these are photographs taken by S. Kind & Sons (thanks Barney!) of their actual stock.

Case wrote on Fri, 10 September 2021 07:45

Also interesting to see price for 14k green gold case was less. Could it be yellow was an import, green gold cincinnati?

I've noticed that on a number of watches, generally not later than the mid-1920s. After that, the prices mostly seem to be equal. And it's not about origin. You can see it for models that clearly had the same case maker (in fact, I don't think there are any models, at least that I'm aware of, that used more than one case maker). My guess is that it has something to do with the contents of the alloy. Maybe a higher palladium content in earlier white gold?

Also, thanks for the thoughts on the movement. This is the only "997" (or is it really just a 17j 98?) I have. I have one other 98, but I think it's the usual 15j version. And yesterday I was going to post the SN to see if that could narrow down the date of production. Then I realized it's under the dial. And my rule is that when I have a serviced watch with a clean dial, I'm not letting my grubby hands anywhere near it. Taking it out for pictures is the farthest I'll go.

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		Import Tank By: afire on Wed, 08 September 2021 18:01
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Jenneke on Wed, 08 September 2021 18:11
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Gary on Wed, 08 September 2021 19:14
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Wed, 08 September 2021 19:56
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Barney Green on Wed, 08 September 2021 21:05
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Thu, 09 September 2021 03:46
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Ephemerald on Thu, 09 September 2021 04:55
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Gary on Thu, 09 September 2021 13:35
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Thu, 09 September 2021 17:10
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Jenneke on Thu, 09 September 2021 20:16
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Thu, 09 September 2021 20:44
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: JackW on Thu, 09 September 2021 21:56
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Case on Fri, 10 September 2021 01:39
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Jenneke on Fri, 10 September 2021 06:22
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Barney Green on Fri, 10 September 2021 11:36
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Case on Fri, 10 September 2021 12:45
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Fri, 10 September 2021 14:58
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Case on Fri, 10 September 2021 17:16
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Case on Fri, 10 September 2021 17:50
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Wed, 29 September 2021 14:49
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Case on Thu, 30 September 2021 16:28
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Thu, 30 September 2021 17:17
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: afire on Thu, 09 September 2021 16:37
		Re: Circa 1926 Swiss-Cased 14k Green Men's Tank By: Ephemerald on Thu, 09 September 2021 03:11

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