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1934 Catalog Description
Grant
Sturdily constructed model of
14K
filled gold, white or natural yellow. With luminous dial (shown),
$52.50. With raised gold figure dial, $55.00
Production Info |
Comments
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Production
Date: 1933 - 1935
Price When New: $52.50 ($55.00
with raised gold figure dial)
Case: Silver
Case Manufacturer: Wadsworth
Production for this Variation:
3,200
Movement:
987 - 17-jewel
movement or the 979 19-jewel premium movement
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Comments:
The Grant was named for Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the
United States and general of the the Union forces during the Civil
War. The Grant was introduced in 1933 in a Wadsworth
10K yellow
gold-filled case and later in 10K white gold-filled and 14K yellow
and white gold-filled versions. The sterling silver Grant was
manufactured in only 3,200 examples and this pristine example sports
Egyptian style "Luminous Figures" as opposed to the alternate
variation of Breguet numeral "Raised Gold Figures."
Silver is typically an uncommon metal
for the construction of a watch case and accordingly, silver was not
commonly used by Hamilton. The other silver cased Hamiltons include
the Cushion Wire Lug circa 1917, Cushion circa 1922, the Cushion
"Form Opening" circa 1926, the Barrel circa 1927 and the Greeley
(Clinton) in 1932.
Interestingly, the vast majority of
silver Grants produced, were made in 1933, the Grant's first year of
production.
- Photograph by Bryan Girouard -
