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Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 16th, 2020, 11:02 pm
by atkin68
I really love these movements, I have a few. They wind and run as smooth as butter, and they look fantastic. A bit of a pain to adapt to a flat dial since they are curved, but worth the trouble.
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 16th, 2020, 11:04 pm
by binbin
The bottom plate has a curved surface to it?
atkin68 wrote: ↑December 16th, 2020, 11:02 pm
I really love these movements, I have a few. They wind and run as smooth as butter, and they look fantastic. A bit of a pain to adapt to a flat dial since they are curved, but worth the trouble.
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 2:56 am
by VanSong
atkin68 wrote:I really love these movements, I have a few. They wind and run as smooth as butter, and they look fantastic. A bit of a pain to adapt to a flat dial since they are curved, but worth the trouble.
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Indeed attractive
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 6:23 am
by tafari
looks beautiful, can you make a picture of the curved mainplate? did I understand well?
Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 10:11 am
by atkin68
tafari wrote:looks beautiful, can you make a picture of the curved mainplate? did I understand well?
Sure. Here is a 17j version I have:
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 10:12 am
by atkin68
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 3:33 pm
by tafari
thx for the picture, not easy to make a dial for it
Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 5:35 pm
by binbin
Wow, I thought I had misunderstood. I've never seen anything like that.
If you have a lathe you could make a really cool dial for that. I'm thinking of all the possibilities.
Thank you for posting the picture.
atkin68 wrote: ↑December 17th, 2020, 10:11 am
tafari wrote:looks beautiful, can you make a picture of the curved mainplate? did I understand well?
Sure. Here is a 17j version I have:
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Re: Gruen 381/380
Posted: December 17th, 2020, 5:55 pm
by atkin68
binbin wrote: ↑December 17th, 2020, 5:35 pm
Wow, I thought I had misunderstood. I've never seen anything like that.
If you have a lathe you could make a really cool dial for that. I'm thinking of all the possibilities.
Thank you for posting the picture.
atkin68 wrote: ↑December 17th, 2020, 10:11 am
tafari wrote:looks beautiful, can you make a picture of the curved mainplate? did I understand well?
Sure. Here is a 17j version I have:
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Indeed. The dials they came with are pretty cool themselves and would be a good base for creativity...but I can't locate them now.
