empressissi™ is pleased to offer this fantastic early and sought after GRUEN dress watch for men from 1950, with the legendary CURVEX movement - the only mass production mechanical movement engineered with curved bridges for a more ergonomic design. This watch is ready to wear, gift or add to your collection.
The watch houses an early 370 Curvex caliber which is the last in the series of Curvex calibers, running on 17 jewels with sub seconds. It is cased in a GRUEN original 10K yellow gold filled case model 370-696 (commercially known as the LORD model), it comes with a mint crystal and original signed crown.
The dial is factory original in brushed ice silver tone with complicated gold inlaid numerals and original set of hands, all in near mint condition.
This collectible GRUEN watch measures 22mm side to side (excluding crown) and 36mm from top lug to bottom lug.
Attached to this watch is its original, ultrasonically cleaned and well preserved, lightly used scissors flex bracelet of stainless steel with gold filled links by BRETTON.
Vintage watches are smaller than today's standards; To avoid the inconvenience of returns merely due to wrong size expectations, Please study the listed sizes and keep in mind that in most cases, vintage watches will be smaller than today's standards and are unlikely to fit a large wrist. For your convenience, and to better understand the proportions of vintage watches sizes, download and print a copy of our unique watch size reference PDF page.
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