Dietrich died suddenly in In the Gruen brothers built a new headquarter outside of Cincinnati, Ohio and named it Time Hill. The building was inspired by Medieval guild halls, and became an important symbol. We believe in applying art to industry as exemplified in all of our activities, from building a plant whose style of architecture suggests craftsmanship, to making the watches most beautiful, with greatest accuracy obtainable.
Wristwatches grew in popularity during the s, but conservative American companies continued to make only pocket watches, while Gruen made both wrist and pocket watches.
Wristwatches were still not considered appropriate for formal occasions, so Gruen ads tried to convince men that they needed both a wristwatch and a pocket watch. Gruen was one of the first companies to design movements specifically for wristwatches; it made rectangular movements for rectangular watches, while most competitors still used small, round movements. This was carried even further in the famous Gruen Curvex.
Katz was brought in as President of the Gruen Watch Company. Fred would retire in , but continued to sit on the board for the rest of his life. After the success of the Curvex, Gruen launched a series of Veri-Thin wristwatches.
Like the Curvex, the Veri-Thin was developed to fill fashionable watch case shapes. In the s, Gruen started building Veri-Thin completely in the U. Fred died in , and his brother George died in The Wadsworth case date is the date the watch's case was manufactured.
If you want to know the exact age of your watch, then this date is what you are seeking. Let's call this date, the date your Wadsworth case was made, the Wadsworth Date. If you are attempting to identify your watch, that is, you are seeking the model name and other detailed information about it, then you are actually looking for a different date.
For identification research, the critical date is the "Introduction Date", the date the watch model was first introduced to the public for sale. The reason for this is simple; you are most likely to find the most information published about a watch when it first went up for sale. Advertisements and catalogs, the primary source of your identification data, will contain the newest models, not those that have been shipping for 4 or 5 years. Your Wadsworth Date will be later than the Introduction Date.
You will want to look further into the past when searching for detailed data about your watch. More about this can be found in the ID You Gruen! These sequences will be decoded so that more accurate dating of Gruen watches can be completed.
Thank you to all the wonderful ebay sellers that have been providing this information in their listings! Remember to check your serial numbers against the movement AND case serial number databases! You may be able to quite accurately pinpoint when your specific watch was made!
For me the watch to the left changed my life. I restored it and put it up for sale on eBay. But something about this watch spoke to me and I thought it was one of the most beautiful watches I've seen. The dial is really creamy and deep. The curved crystal that continued down the lugs that meet an equally curved and elegant case back. I was hooked. Check out the "before" picture. International Dial did a phenomenal job. The results from restoration efforts are incredible, and I say that in an generalized way.
Almost any watch can be brought back. Then the real magic took hold when I started researching this new-to-me brand, Gruen. What did I find? Almost nothing What a rare thing to us all to share. This father and son family were brilliant and seemed to attract really good people to work with them, to see their collective visions through to reality.
As you become more educated and read the details of what this Gruen family accomplished, it doesn't take long to see that these were geniuses at work. I hope you enjoy this site. Explore the many different facets that make Gruen unique among all other watches. It's an attempt to be a repository and library, tools and tutorials. Call it what you want I call it fun! Permission for re-use or distribution, in any format, is not implied nor granted.
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The lookup table is located below and on the Serial Number page. Serial Year. A B C Happy New Year ! Another year, another new Gruen research tool. Shortcut-dating of Your Gruen Watch Don't want to take the time to get a really accurate answer on the tutorial page?
Calculate the value of your Gruen in today's dollars using this. Search our site to find stuff quicker! Gruen Movement Finder - Quick reference tool that tells you basic info and where to find more info. Expect better things soon as this is just a portal into the data Lulu has the entire list of Gruen books while Amazon is a subset. See coupons further down this page or on Lulu's homepage for more savings! A new lower cost, soft cover version of The Gruen Watch Catalog is now available. The Front Page Just use the new handy tool on the homepage and in new Movement Catalog The Caliber Curvex movements' serial numbers have been [maybe] [partially] decoded!!
NEW tools for dating your Gruen watch! And , a new "series" Keep checking back as more pages are added every day or two! An early version of the Gruen Horological Text I'm making available another newly discovered Gruen document. Former Employees' Relatives
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