{"id":9299,"date":"2022-04-05T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=9299"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:09:18","slug":"elgin-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=9299","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Huron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watch collecting probably should be categorized as a mental illness.  I&#8217;ve added this Huron to the collection simply because it has the cooler, alternative hands that Elgin used in this model at one point.  The case is 9501 and this Huron uses the 17 jewel, 715 movement which I don&#8217;t remember seeing before.  The watch appears in the 1954 catalogue.  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