GRUEN Watch Company

One of the most important and prestigious American watch manufacturers. Gruen watch company was a watch manufacturer founded in 1894 as "D. Gruen & Son" by a brilliant German horologists, Dietrich Gruen and his eldest son Frederick G. Gruen. Years later, the second son. George J., joined the firm and the name was changed to "D. Gruen & Sons".

"Gruen obtained a patent for an improved safety pinion, and it is the date recognized by the Gruen Watch Company as the start of its business." Early Gruen watches included pocket watches and wristwatches for men and women. Gruen watches were known for their elegant and thin design, marketed by the company as VeriThin.

Among the first companies to sell wristwatches, the Gruens split their manufacturing between two continents: exporting American technology to Germany and Switzerland, and bringing German and Swiss traditions of craftsmanship to America. Gruen watches are generally considered Swiss watches, the company cased and timed its watches in the United States and imported the movements from Switzerland. There were some short period during the 1950's where Gruen made some movement in the United States.

“It has always been our aim,” In 1917, Fred said, “… to foster those ideals of the ancient guilds, of quality and craftsmanship; to make useful things in a beautiful way,
under ideal surroundings. 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.”

GRUEN
Veri-Thin
Ladies Watch

This is a UNIQUE timepiece, a vintage Gruen Veri-Thin ladies wristwatch we estimate it is dated from 1950's. It is a manual winding watch, red sweep second, Swiss made.

Cased in a very special 19mm square case and fancy lugs design.

It still has the original champagne dial (showing some ghost hands “radium burns”), luminous Arabic Numerals with luminous indexes and luminous matching hands. The dial is signed with the Gruen name and "Veri-Thin" on top.

The watch is coming with a blue leather two-piece strap. It will fit a wrist up to 6" (15.3 cm).

This ladies wristwatch is still in good condition. Runs very well and keeps great time!

Thank you for looking! Please feel free to contact us with any questions, or respectful offers.

Movement:
Manual watch

Case Markings: 
GRUEN
50533B

Measurements (mm):
Case Dimensions: 19
Case with Crown: 21.5
Case Lug to Lug: 29
Case Thickness: 8
Lug Width: 12
Band Width: 12

Vintage watches are traditionally smaller than today's watches. Men’s watches typically measure between 29-36mm wide (some larger, some smaller) excluding the crown. In the listing details we typically try to do our best to list all pertinent dimensions of a watch. If you don't see it, or we failed to do so, please reach out to us. Women’s watches from the 1900s-1970s were also much smaller than today's offerings. Please also feel free to ask any questions you have pertaining to size.

We prefer to shoot photographs outside when weather is permitting. However, when we shoot indoors, please be aware that we shoot our photographs inside of lightboxes that are lit with 360 LED bulbs. This indeed magnifies any flaws. Usually, they are much less obvious to the naked eye. Having said that, we never photoshop any of our photography, remove blemishes, etc. We adjust lighting when necessary, but what you see is what you are getting, and we take pride in that.

The condition is pre-owned.

The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear but is fully operational and functions as intended.
Please review the photos and feel free to ask any questions you may have.
It will be carefully packed.

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