1952 GRUEN Curvex 440-797 Gents Dress Watch

1952 GRUEN Curvex 440-797 Gents Dress Watch

Gruen

$429.00

empressissi™ is pleased to offer this fantastic early and sought after GRUEN dress watch for men from 1952, 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 440 Curvex caliber which is the second in the series of Curvex calibers and the most popular one, running on 17 jewels with sub seconds. It is cased in a GRUEN original 10K yellow gold filled case model 440-797, it comes with a mint pyramid crystal and original signed crown.

The dial is factory original - amazing brushed silver cross section dual tone with gold inlay numerals and raised gold plated markers with an original set of 'pyramid' hands.

This collectible GRUEN watch measures 25,5mm side to side (excluding crown) and 37mm from top lug to bottom lug.

Attached to this watch is a XL length, brand new 16mm wide TIMEPIECE quality padded genuine leather band in dark brown tone with an anti-allergic yellow tone buckle.

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