{"id":8698,"date":"2021-11-08T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2021-11-08T00:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:12:38","slug":"1963-lord-elgin-18k-gold-case-1517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8698","title":{"rendered":"1963 Lord Elgin, 18K Gold Case 1517"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>18K gold Elgins are far and few between, so when I saw this available I had to have it.  It uses the case number 1517 and so far, we haven&#8217;t found a name for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It uses the 23 jewel, 770 movement.  The watch was a retirement present for an employee of the Humble Oil Company, which in the 1960s would become Exxon Oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its a rather hefty watch and it has a nice curative which fits one&#8217;s wrist nicely.  I very lucky to have added this to my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, Kurt Ryerson found the crystal for this watch in the GS catalogue under 7517.  It is CMX392-17.  <\/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\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8699\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8699\" class=\"wp-image-8699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg 768w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"966\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8700\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8700\" class=\"wp-image-8700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731-300x283.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731-150x142.jpg 150w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731-768x725.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8701\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8701\" class=\"wp-image-8701\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg 768w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8702\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8702\" class=\"wp-image-8702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg 768w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8703\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8703\" class=\"wp-image-8703\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg 768w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18K gold Elgins are far and few between, so when I saw this available I had to have it. It uses the case number 1517 and so far, we haven&#8217;t found a name for it. It uses the 23 jewel, 770 movement. The watch was a retirement present for an employee of the Humble Oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[183],"tags":[288,287,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698"}],"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=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}