Dietrich Gruen Documents

During his time as a watch repairman in Delaware, Ohio, Dietrich Gruen developed an improved center pinion for watches. Gruen’s…

Marketing the Gruen image was an important part of Frederick Gruen’s leadership of the company. In 1911, he hired the…

In this 1919 edition of Printer’s Ink, an advertising trade magazine, the J. Walter Thompson Co. discusses their approach to…

Each Gruen watch had parts that were especially fitted to it. Watch repairmen could order these parts from the company.…

At the start of his career, Dietrich Gruen worked as a watch repairman. In the 1920s, his company published a…

In 1913, the Gruens purchased land in Cincinnati for a new factory building, which they named “Time Hill.” It was…

Introduced in 1904, Gruen’s VeriThin (also spelled Verithin) was about one-third thinner than conventional movements. It became one of the…

Wristwatches became a masculine accessory during World War I. By 1916, it had become fashionable for all men to wear…