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GruenWristwatches.com 

Dedicated 100% to Vintage Gruen Watches... "All Gruen, All the Time"

Enjoy your stay and get as much educational material as you can carry

Date your Gruen using Style Numbers with the new online Style Number Dating tool

Simply enter your Style Number in the box below to find your watch's date and additional Style Number information

I hope you find something in these pages that both excites and motivates you. If so, please share it with others!

Mobile and tablet users - This site best viewed in  "Desktop mode". The fonts are fairly large and the galleries work better in this mode.

 

 

What's New at GruenWristwatches! 

May 2015

Added a mint Strap 99 to the Gruen Watch Shop. It is time to begin the purge of accumulated restorations. I will photograph and post as quickly as I can, which is likely to be slower than I would like given the other Gruen activities.

Added a gallery along with a discussion of the caliber 819 movement which appears to be the least used Gruen production movement.

Added a gallery with a pair of green gold quadrants that I restored

Added a PDF of the 1917 Gruen "Blue Book".

Mar 2015

A couple of new watches posted in the gallery - a ladies wristlet style, a white gold Quadron.

  You can now buy an epub version of the Gruen Horological Text in the Google play store! The book was reformatted to fully utilize epub features such as table of contents and font resizing. Other watch repair books and reference books are being actively added. Special price on this new ebook!

Added a tutorial on how to open a snap back watch case. In general, it is not Gruen specific. It does contain a section on data collection that is Gruen specific. Use at your own peril.

Feb 2015

Advertising images of 1930 Hollywood starlets holding Carre watches

Added the galleries for the Tilton and Veri-Thin Hollywood to my restored Gruens galleries page.

Dec 2014

A site visitor steered me towards some old pages of what looks like Gruen watches. Now trying to figure out if there is anything at all of interest or if it's all just a bunch of trash. Hang tight and I'll see if I can find something to share with everyone. It looks like the kind of stuff that should be shared but won't know until I dig in. Maybe can get something together for Christ

I did find a pocket watch that I like. I could be a Gruen pocket watch fan if I ran across more of these

Nov 2014

  •    Canadian Invoices - now in gallery format and PDF format. Much easier to browse and read.

Oct 2014

  • Brought back this "What's NEW" section to the homepage. The most recent updates will be shown here now as well as on the Updates page
  •     An original photo of the 1929 Alpina-Gruen sales conference. Here you'll find a very high resolution scan of the photograph that is printed in the back of the 1929 Gruen Watch Makers Guild Book. This photograph shows more people and is extremely clear.

 

NOW AVAILABLE
The Collector's Edition of The Gruen Watch Model Identification Guide
A Hard Cover Book containing BOTH VOLUMES 1 and 2


Get the Hardcover Collector's Edition for the same price as the combined prices for the current Volume 1 and Volume 2 soft cover books. That's right, get both volumes, in hardcover format, for the same price as the soft cover versions. See the Gruen Bookstore for more information on ordering. 

The Latest in the Gruen Model Identification Books

Three years in the making and it's finally done.  

The Gruen Watch Model Identification Guide Volume 2 contains considerably more watches than Volume 1 -- 60% more to be exact - the two Volumes together provide identification for over 1,000 vintage Gruen watches. Volume 1 has 97 pages identifying 389 models while Volume 2 has 170 pages that identifies 648 watch models, totaling more than 1,000 watches. Amazingly this accounts for less than 1/2 of the watch models Gruen made.

Watches of every type of Gruen watch are identified. These include the main 'series' of Gruen watches -  Curvex, Veri-Thin, Quadron, Cartouche, Baguette, Auto-Wind.

The book is available for purchase in the Gruen Bookstore.

Learn how to Identify Gruen watches! 

You too can be a pro at finding information about any Gruen watch using the tips, techniques and tools found here
 
As part of the desire to help educate and foster education in Gruen watches and the ability to identify them, I wrote a new tutorial outlining some of my secret tools and techniques that I employ when researching a new (to me) Gruen watch.  There's actually no secrets, just patience and hard work. 

Find the name and the age of your Vintage Gruen, even if you're not an expert.

The New Style Number Dating Method for dating Gruen wristwatches helps collectors obtain date information for almost all Gruens, regardless of who made the case or the caliber of the watch, etc.  It's about as general purpose of a dating tool as one could imagine. You don't have to already know much about the watch in order to date it. You need to read some information in the back of the case.

FREE Windows software available on the same information page for quickly determining your watch's approximate date (using this new technique). NEW version 2.0 for 2014 makes a major improvement in the data provided back to you.

This method was published in the AWCI (American Watchmakers Clockmakers Institute) and most recently by the NAWCC (National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors) in the NAWCC Bulletin's April 2013 issue.  It was the featured article of the month so that members and non-members could read it.  Should you wish to read this month's free NAWCC's Bulletin article it's here on the NAWCC's website.  

This is THE watch that hooked me, yanked me into the world of Gruens.  It started the obsession I suppose.  Until I restored this specific watch, I had never heard the name "Gruen" before (honest). I even had this watch for sale on eBay before I noticed the beauty. 

If you're new to Gruens, I hope you stay for a while with Gruens and get to know the brand. It's full of adventures and mysteries unlike any other watch brand.

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