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Gruen Guild Precision Watches from 1927

Only because the Gruen Guild is made up of men whose fathers and grandfathers were watchmakers before them can it offer you women's timekeepers like those shown above —so dainty, yet so accurately adjusted, so durable, so thoroughly dependable for year after year of daily timekeeping satisfaction.

GRUEN WATCH Advertisement in The Literary Digest - November 12, 1927

GRUEN PENTAGON AND CARTOUCHE WATCHES

What only Guild craftsmanship will give you

ANY good watch is a miracle of fine workmanship—even the relatively large man's pocket timepiece.

How much more wonderful, then, is the tiny wristlet worn by women today!

In a case only a fraction as large as that of a man's watch are assembled essentially the same number of parts—a number running literally into the hundreds.

Necessarily much smaller than those in a man's watch, these parts must yet be manufactured and assembled with the utmost microscopic exactness.

The highest type of technical training is of course required to produce a satisfactory movement in so small a case.

But it takes something more than that besides. It takes an inherited skill, developed by generations of craftsmen wholly devoted to a single art.

GRUEN CARTOUCHE SOLID GOLD WATCHES FOR WOMEN

It takes a tradition of patient workmanship passed down from father to son since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and kept alive today by a modern guild of watch-makers.

Only because the Gruen Guild is made up of men whose fathers and grandfathers were watchmakers before them can it offer you women's timekeepers like those shown above —so dainty, yet so accurately adjusted, so durable, so thoroughly dependable for year after year of daily timekeeping satisfaction.

If you are going to buy a watch for yourself or for some beloved person, see to it, therefore, that it is a Gruen. The great variety of exquisite designs offered by the Guild makes possible a choice exactly suited to the person who is to wear it.

In nearly every community the better jewelers can show you the watches pictured here, together with many other fine Gruen Guild Watch creations for both men and women.

GRUEN WATCH MAKERS GUILD TIME HILL, CINCINNATI, U. S. A.

GRUEN CARTOUCHE AND BRACELET WATCHES

Branches in various parts of the world Engaged in the art of making fine watches for more than half a century

PRECISION Trade Mark Reg. This GRUEN pledge mark is placed only upon watches of finer quality, accuracy and finish. Made only in the Precision workshop

Gruen Guild watches - Look for the mark PRECISION on the dial