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D. Gruen, Sons & Co. Gruen watch ad from 1917. In 1900 the corporate name became D. Gruen, Sons & Co. The new company became partially a Swiss company. The movements were no longer made in Glashütte, Germany, but in Switzerland again. 1903, a subsidiary was formed, “The Gruen Watch Manufacturing Company”, located in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
5 days ago · Gruen Watches - History. Gruen Watch Company was founded in 1894 by the father and son team of Dietrich and Fred Gruen. The elder Gruen had emigrated to America from Germany, where he learned the skill of watchmaking as a teen. He co-founded another company, Columbus Watch Manufacturing Company, in 1876, where Fred also learned the watchmaking ...
- Dietrich Grün, The Founder of Gruen, Came from Germany
- Gruen Watches Moved to Cincinnati
- A Long Post-War Decline
Several European watchmakers, coming from European watchmaking basins, have attempted the adventure of crossing the ocean to conquer the New World. The German Dietrich Grün is one of them. An apprentice watchmaker in Switzerland in 1862, he was fifteen years old and no doubt already had many dreams in mind. Five years later, he emigrated to the Uni...
In 1917, Gruen moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he settled downtown for a while before building a factory on the heights, in a quiet area conducive to watchmaking. It was in this spectacular building, named Time Hill and inspired by a corporate headquarters discovered in Belgium, that the majority of the brand's models were produced between 1921 an...
Fred Gruen's death in 1945 marked the beginning of a long period of decline. The brand had difficulty resisting the influx of Swiss watches on the American market, despite the development of a 21-jewel movement made entirely in the United States. Sold in 1953, the family company experienced five years of severe turbulence. Between management errors...
The Story of Gruen watches begins in the small German village of Ostofen, on the banks of the Rhine River. It was from there, in the mid 1800s, that Dietrich Gruen emigrated to America. Having apprenticed for some time in some of the Swiss watch factories, Gruen worked for a jeweler and watchmaker in Delaware, Ohio.
Gruen: The Art and Mystery of Watchmaking. Paul Schliesser's elegant site offers a comprehensive history of the Gruen Watch Company of Ohio. The easy-to-navigate site is divided into sections, each representing a significant turning point in the company’s history—from the 1867 arrival in America of founder Dietrich Gruen to the watches produced during the company’s heyday in the 1920s.
In 1894, Fred Gruen and Dietrich Gruen decided to try to start a new watch company. Using money borrowed from friends and relatives, Dietrich and Fred formed the partnership "D. Gruen and Son.". These first Gruen watches are of very high quality and are beautifully made. Both 18 and 16 size versions were manufactured, each in both open face and ...
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Jul 5, 2013 · Great summary on Gruens! Gruen has gone through a revolution of information gathering and publishing over the 8 or 9 years. The amount of information available for collectors has grown from a handful of magazine articles and a single black and white book to 10 new identification guides, 100’s of pages of Gruen published annual shareholder reports, calculators for finding the date a watch was ...
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