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CORPUS EXPORT · 12269 calibers · 59387 family views · round round/2026-09-08Compiled from app/public/data/ · corpus 70c0140eba.
Family treeGruen 179 (Universal 259) — Heritage family: 4 calibers, 3 sourced lineage links.Drag to explore.
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movement

Gruen 179 (Universal 259)

maker not sourcedintroduced 1925design:gruen-179compare specs · 2
bounding evidence — no range is drawn on the era axis
not after 1945
a dated example movement, 1945“1945: 1218344, Alpina 575, Swiss”

Identity

A caliber is three separate things and this reference keeps them apart: the construction, the names it is sold under, and the article a brand actually bought. A watch model points at an execution — never at a bare construction — which is why “same caliber” is almost never a complete answer.

IDesign — the construction
Gruen 179 (Universal 259)
movement
IIDesignations — 0 names

No designation is recorded for this design yet.

IIIExecutions — 1 article

No source in this corpus states which grade any Gruen 179 (Universal 259) was bought at. That unknown is stored as a real row rather than left blank, so it can be counted, filtered and excluded from any comparison that would otherwise assume parity.

unknownsynthetic
evidence: unknown

no source states which grade this article was bought at — this row exists so 'unknown' stays countable instead of becoming an assumption

exec:gruen-179/unknown

Specifications

PropertyValueScopeStatusSources
Jewels
build.jewel_count
15—staged
Seconds display
disp.seconds_display
small—staged
Movement diameter
geom.diameter_mm
21.7 mm—staged
Movement height
geom.height_mm
3.75 mm—staged
Frequency
osc.frequency_vph
18000 vph—staged
Power reserve (typical)
power.reserve_typical_h
37 h—staged
Introduced
prod.intro_year
1925—staged
Winding mode
wind.mode
manual—staged

Lineage

The same relationships as the tree at the top of this page, with their sources. An absence in a column means no source stated one.

Ancestors · 1

Where this construction came from. Read up the arrows.

Descendants · 0

What came from it — revisions, variants, clones, licensed copies.

None recorded. An absence here means no source stated one, not that none exists.

Related · 0

Stored in a different table from descent. A successor is not a child.

None recorded. An absence here means no source stated one, not that none exists.

Sources

  1. 1
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20181107154505/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&a0&2uswk&Gruen_179
    archivetier 2retrieved 2018-11-0710 facts on this page
  2. 2
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230904012001/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Alpina_575&
    archivetier 2retrieved 2023-09-041 fact on this page
  3. 3
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20190719230157/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Alpina_762
    archivetier 2retrieved 2019-07-191 fact on this page