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Gruen Alarm

Sun, 01 June 2025 16:05

Model name: Gruen Alarm
Type: wristwatch
Period/date: 1958-1960
Gender: male

Case Maker: unknown, waterproof
Case Material: 10k RGP bezel, stainless steel back
Case Serial: none
Case Style no: 258A

Caliber: 940RSS (seventeen jewels, unadjusted.
Movement Maker: Venus (cal 230)
Movement Serial:  none

Other:
Dial has RA Swiss on it. Yup, still radioactive. When the alarm is on the dot is green, normal mode the dot is red. Unusual is only one barrel. Movement patent is 2803940 ( https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.goog leapis.com/pdfs/US2803940.pdf)

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1950's and Up | 2 comments

Groovy Led

Thu, 15 May 2025 19:18

LED watches were the very first digital watches. Interestingly the American watch manufacturers were in the lead in the digital watches market in the seventies. Not Gruen but Hamilton was the first to advertise a LED watch.

Model name: unknown
Type: LED
Period/date: 1972-1979 (suspect feb 1976 for this watch)
Gender: male

Case Maker: microsonic corp swiss
Case Material: base metal bezel, stainless steel back
Case Serial: -
Case Style no: -

Caliber: 9300?
Movement Maker: unknown
Movement Serial: -

Bracelet: stainless steel.

Other info: A LED watch is an electronic quartz watch with a digital display. Generally has 4 digits with 7 segments each. It is controlled by a tiny digital circuit with one ore more microchips. A 70s LED watch always needs two 1.5 V button cells, every 3 months. 😅 It has several leds in one segment. It is hard to get a good picture of the time…  when pushing the button it only appears briefly.

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1950's and Up | 1 comment

Silver baguette 821

Thu, 24 April 2025 20:07

Model name: bag 821
Type: baguette (I would call it a cartouche)
Period/date: 1934
Gender: female

Case Maker: gruen (national quality)
Case Material: silver
Case Serial: 6006484
Case Style no: 85

Caliber: 833
Movement Maker: aegler (guild a)
Movement Serial: 1878365

Bracelet: weird silver short necklace. Removed it.

Other info: The diamonds are a personal touch. And interestingly the movement is marked unadjusted twice on the same bridge. Inscription L.F.B. And jan 16 1934 on the back.

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1930's | 3 comments

Yellow Part Box

Sat, 12 April 2025 16:03

Yellow part box with 12 compartments for stems and other bits. I have a dozen more boxes of various Gruen calibers.

Period: 1930 (guess)
Watch type: Various calibers
Size: 8.5 x 7.5 cm
Inventor: Unknown
Patents: Unknown

Box maker: I don't believe this is a Gruen in house box. There are other boxes that have calibers like the series 57 which refers to Swartchild. However I looked through several of their catalogs and found no such box.

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1930s | 1 comment

Gruen Watch MFG C - Standard Materials Box no. 3

Unknown Series; Tue, 25 March 2025 16:17

A standard material box for movements, hard to tell what the series caliber is by the looks of it. A larger brother of no. 5 box posted awhile back.

Period: 1930
Watch type: Unknown Series
Size: 13 x 17 cm
Inventor: Gruen
Patents: Not known

Box maker: Gruen

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1930s | 1 comment

Military pocket watch Plate 22A

Wed, 19 March 2025 21:08

Model name: plate 22A Very verithin model
Type: pocket watch
Period/date: 1919
Gender: male

Case Maker: wadsworth
Case Material: Gold filled ultra quality PER
Case Serial: 331304
Case Style no: -

Caliber: V4 (verithin 17 jewels, 5 positions temperatures adjusted)
Movement Maker: Lavina
Movement Serial: 490253

Other info: highly radioactive. yellowish dial. No switzerland in sight on the dial so it could be an old redial. Not original crystal makes it a bit thick. Gone is the very verithin appearance.🤣

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From the 1917 guild book:
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1910's and prior | 0 comments

Where can I spend my coin

Mon, 17 March 2025 21:59

Sounds like a massive discount!

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Smiling dial.
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Gruen Non Horological Related Products | 1 comment

Alpina Acier Inoxydable

Mon, 17 March 2025 21:53

Not a perfect dial and has been loved by a previous owner. Glass not perfect, but better looking IRL.

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Watches from the Guild | 3 comments

Alpina Gruen Gilde

Sun, 23 February 2025 19:36

Another pocket watch for the collection. I bought this for the marking that is at the 6-o'clock position:
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I've a few other 'Gilde' marked watches and I had always assumed that the 'Gilde' name was just another sub-branded Alpina (like the Siegerin watches) and post Gruen's departure from the collaboration. Not sure what to think. Stuff to ponder: When did the Gilde name start (and yes, I know that it is gilde = guild)? Did the use outlast the split of Alpina and Gruen? Was it contemporaneous to Siegerin?

Here is the rest of the watch, cased in a chromed nickel case.
Caliber 355, 18-ligne in size.
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Gruen's Cal 355 is a different movement all together: https://vintagegruen.org/vgforum/index.php?t=msg&goto=21 69
and here too: https://vintagegruen.org/vgforum/index.php?t=msg&th=284& amp;start=0&

Very similar watch on the Gruen.watch website, which shows a case composition marking. Proximity of the case serial is interesting too.
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Watches from the Guild | 5 comments

Gruen Watch MFG C - Standard Materials Box no. 5

600 Series Movements; Wed, 05 February 2025 16:00

A standard material box for movements, this one for the 600 series caliber by the looks of it. Bets are this was an in country box for distribution and not exported.

Period: 1930 - A wild guess being we what looks like a newly built Time Hill factory in Biel.
Watch type: 600 Series
Size: 11 x 15 cm
Inventor: Gruen
Patents: Not known

Box maker: Gruen

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1930s | 1 comment

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