{"id":8698,"date":"2021-11-08T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/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":"https:\/\/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 wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8699\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8699\" class=\"wp-image-8699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5729-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"966\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8700\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8700\" class=\"wp-image-8700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5731-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8701\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8701\" class=\"wp-image-8701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5732-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8702\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8702\" class=\"wp-image-8702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5733-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8703\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8703\" class=\"wp-image-8703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_5734-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[288,287,158],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1963 Lord Elgin, 18K Gold Case 1517 - Grumpyguy Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8698\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1963 Lord Elgin, 18K Gold Case 1517 - Grumpyguy Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"18K gold Elgins are far and few between, so when I saw this available I had to have it. 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