{"id":7910,"date":"2019-01-09T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2019-05-05T23:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:49:28","slug":"1954-elgin-crusader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=7910","title":{"rendered":"1954 Elgin Crusader in Yellow Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally got a 1954 Elgin Crusader cobbled together.  First I found a NOS, integrated bracelet.  It cost more than the watch itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to send the 19 jewel, 671 movement off to the watchmaker as it was gaining 10 minutes an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The black dial is in great shape and the crystal is in good shape as well.  The case is 10k gold filled is number 5534.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its almost like having a new watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1170-e1547058372682.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1170-e1547058372682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7911\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=7911\" class=\"wp-image-7911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1170-e1547058372682.jpeg 409w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1170-e1547058372682-93x150.jpeg 93w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1170-e1547058372682-186x300.jpeg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" 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First I found a NOS, integrated bracelet. It cost more than the watch itself! I had to send the 19 jewel, 671 movement off to the watchmaker as it was gaining 10 minutes an hour. The black dial is in great shape and the crystal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[242,209],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-671-movement","tag-case-5534","tag-elgin-19","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}