I have been wanting to acquire the Gruen Ocean Chief for quite sometime already and it came as a surprise that two pieces were offered to me last week. Both are in very good condition specially the dials. The cases appear to be unpolished and the other watch came with a beads of rice bracelet without the Gruen Logo. It looks exactly like the one in old Gruen print ads so could it be that the bracelets originally used did not have the logo?

In fact, I bough a third one but its missing the desirable concave bezel. What is intriguing is the sterile dial which under the loop does not show any sign of printing that was erased or radium lumes applied.

The Gruens are indeed great additions to my collection.

Gruen 1






Gruen 2






Gruen 3

 

very nice addition

 

I'm a fan of the concave bezel

 

That first one is nice!. I've got a couple of Gruen pocket watches but now I must have a look at the wrist watches

 

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I just love the unique gloss dial design with snake head hands.

 

I really like those spade hands. Dibs on either of the first two.

 

Picture of both watches together.

 

Great watches ! I love these hands and indices and we don't see them for sale very often, at least not in France or Germany

 

or USA


It appears you've cornered the Market.

Good show!


mine, close but no cigar

 

Very nice!

 

Nice Gruen. Is it also a radium dial?

 

so nice! DIBS please! the bezel in the 2nd picture looks a little blueish? or is it just the lighting/angle?