All about Gruen

[Fred]

Guilty—and charge it! Great ad! Dietrich—was this the octagon style you dislike? The one that looks like you can see the movement under the dial?

[Dietrich]

Yes, looks like it. And yes, you can really see the base plate. Octagon case, round crystal and smaller octagon dial. What a mismatch, to me it really looks disgusting. If I would still have lived when this was to be released I would have forbidden to sell it this way. So all I could do was turning around in my grave and cry with the worms.

[Fred]

1918

April - “new modish shape”

December - new models, several military