{"id":4817,"date":"2015-08-19T22:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:29:20","slug":"elgin-case-6818-swiss-645-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"1955 Elgin Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is pretty obvious why I like this watch. \u00a0Despite the brassing to the lugs and case, that dial is simply unique and exquisite.<\/p>\n<p>I did what I could to the case, despite the brassing. \u00a0From the top, it looks shiny and in this case, that&#8217;s good enough.<\/p>\n<p>I found a NOS dial and put it on a brown sharkskin leather strap.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img 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I did what I could to the case, despite the brassing. \u00a0From the top, it looks shiny and in this case, that&#8217;s good enough. I found a NOS dial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[3,29],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}