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Well, this one here is a REALLY special oddity. First of all, although it is called "Graetz" it is nothing more than an ITT Schaub-Lorenz Pacific Multiband radio, assembled in Austria. It uses all german components and ignoring the paint job it is similar to the German model.

The history goes like this: first the competitors Schaub and Lorenz merged. Then the americans from ITT got most of the shares, so the company became ITT Schaub-Lorenz circa 1970. Then they bought the Austrian Graetz radio/tv/hifi company and started assembling their products in Austria too, putting the locally more popular Graetz name on them there (same as Grundig bought "Minerva", started making their models there and putting the Minerva name on them).

Second, this radio, as you can well see, has a HUGE 26 x 13 cm loudspeaker. As far as I know, this is the single ever made portable mono radio model series with the biggest loudspeaker in the world (excuse my excited grammar).
The sound quality is PHENOMENAL! you have to be next to it, to hear it to believe it.
Sounds like much bigger standalone loudspeakers. It outputs "only" 2 Watts running on batteries, but due to the efficacy of that speaker, it sounds blaring loud in a normal room.
Otherwise... technically speaking, this radio is a ITT Touring (the 100-103 series). The reception is pretty good, nothing to complain about.
Only thing which i don't fancy much is the fake wood aesthetics of the 70s, but oh well, almost all the electronics under the sun had to have some fake wood for...reasons...

I have replaced all its electrolytic capacitors and added some nice LED lights to it since the original incandescent ones were long time burned.
The AM dial pointer is crooked for some reason, I guess the radio sat somewhere in the sun or in some window for a long time.

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