File:Gruen watch.jpg

Summary

Description: Gruen Veri-Thin men's wristwatch of about 1940: a gold-filled cushion case with a silvered dial signed GRUEN VERI-THIN, applied gold Arabic numerals, gold hands and a sunk small-seconds subdial above six, on a gold-tone expansion bracelet, photographed on a grey velvet watch pillow. The uploader's title records 17 jewels, a case made in the USA and a Swiss movement. Representative of the Gruen Watch Company for the family-level page; no model or reference is asserted for any cataloged appearance. Source URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Gruen_Veri-Thin_Men%27s_Wrist_Watch,_17_Jewels,_Case_Made_In_USA,_Swiss_Movement,_Circa_1940_(35425955401).jpg Source publisher: Wikimedia Commons (photograph by Joe Haupt, from his Flickr upload 35425955401) Retrieved: 2026-09-30 License or editorial purpose: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0), credited to Joe Haupt; representative photograph for a family-level watch page. Modifications: None. 1642 x 2312 px JPEG as served by Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Vintage_Gruen_Veri-Thin_Men%27s_Wrist_Watch%2C_17_Jewels%2C_Case_Made_In_USA%2C_Swiss_Movement%2C_Circa_1940_%2835425955401%29.jpg), SHA-1 a64b897c37612951f8b7f1810adf258c9accbdfe as reported by the Commons imageinfo API (page id 69522832) and matched by the downloaded bytes; not resized, cropped, retouched or upscaled. The grey velvet pillow background is kept as found and not padded to square. Related page: Gruen watch