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Falcom
路Can anyone tell me if the Gruen Curvex wirstside watches use a different band then a regular watch? Does the buckle go on the bottom or side?
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tapaptpat
路And welcome to the forum!!
I'm not an expert but I fairly sure the buckle is intended to sit in the same place as a normal watch buckle would.
i.e. on the inside of the wrist. How long this practice was used I don't know. There are advertising images in the article but sadly none show the buckle.
See the following quote from this article. http://www.pixelp.com/gruen/1929.html
A normal leather strap is awkward to use with these watches, because the buckle ends up on the little-finger side of the wrist, opposite the watch. Some originally had special straps, which were extremely long on the buckle end, but very short on the other end. Although they look strange, when worn these straps correctly place that the buckle on the underside of the wrist. Ads show many Ristside models on a scissors-type expansion bracelet. Since these have no buckle, they are espeically convenient to wear with this type of watch.
Hope this helps you get started. Thanks for the interesting question as not realised the driver models went back so far.
Would be really cool if you could upload some images of the watch in question. "No images - it never happened" 馃槜
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Canuck
路What type of strap would solve TWO problems? 1/ With the watch in the usual place on the wrist. 2/ With the watch on the EDGE of the wrist. In the two images I show, I could live with the buckle on the edge of the wrist. It would likely be only temporary.
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gatorcpa
路路惟F InvestiGatorHere is a period ad showing the type of bracelet one of these would have originally had:
Some of these had the leather bands with a short buckle and others had some sort of stretchy material.
https://uhrforum.de/threads/youre-driving-me-crazy-die-drivers-watch-der-30er-jahre.451793/page-2
Hope this helps,
gatorcpa
Some of these had the leather bands with a short buckle and others had some sort of stretchy material.
https://uhrforum.de/threads/youre-driving-me-crazy-die-drivers-watch-der-30er-jahre.451793/page-2
Hope this helps,
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路A watch meant to be worn on the side of the wrist. That鈥檚 a new one on me. Interesting stuff you find here.
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