{"id":8303,"date":"2020-01-31T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2023-03-28T02:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:27:43","slug":"elgin-wheaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Wheaton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve added the Elgin Wheaton to my collection.  It is from 1953 or so and is part of the Swiss movement line of watches introduced by Elgin in the same year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wheaton is 14k gold and has 18k applied markers and hands. 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It is from 1953 or so and is part of the Swiss movement line of watches introduced by Elgin in the same year. The Wheaton is 14k gold and has 18k applied markers and hands. Its case number is 6902. The movement is the 17 jewel, 644 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[257],"tags":[239,259,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303"}],"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=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/9123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}