{"id":8673,"date":"2021-10-28T23:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:41:49","slug":"1934-case-1438-elgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8673","title":{"rendered":"1934-Case 1438 Elgin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Elgin hails from 1934.  It uses a 7 jewel movement housed in a stainless steel case.  Even though it is referred to  as Vertas Metal and base metal on the case, its pretty much agreed upon that it is stainless steel. I found a NOS dial to install and added a period metal bracelet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8674\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8674\" class=\"wp-image-8674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5538-150x113.jpeg 150w, 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It uses a 7 jewel movement housed in a stainless steel case. Even though it is referred to as Vertas Metal and base metal on the case, its pretty much agreed upon that it is stainless steel. I found a NOS dial to install and added a period metal bracelet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[284],"tags":[285,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673"}],"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=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}