Hi All,
I'm fixing up this great Bulova Sea King for my wife... hoping to have things done in time for x-mas, but we'll see.
I'm done with all of the case repairs and got the acrylic crystal buffed out so that it's looking nice again. I hit a snag when I ran the stem and crown through the ultra sonic though. As you can see in the pictures, the "rolled gold" coating that was on the crown came off. It's nothing more than a gold colored piece of foil, and I can push it back down into place.
So I have two questions: 1) Is the original crown supposed to look like this? I mean, is there supposed to be a base metal "cap" at the end of the crown, or was there originally another little piece of gold foil that covered the very end, that was lost somewhere along the way (I recently got this off the Bay).
2) Does anyone have a Bulova Parts Interchange catalog handy? If I do need to replace the crown, I'll need a part number. The movement is 11ANACD, and it is marked 63. It's a N0 17 jewel automatic movement. I'd have to go back and check the Bulova dating schema, but I think that means it was made in 1970. So any Bulova catalog after 1969 should have the part in it. Along those lines, anyone have an extra crown handy, or know where I could source one? I check Borel and CousinsUK can't find it listed with the movement number. Dashto has some crowns in stock, but they're listed by part number.
If this is the watch's natural state (with bare end "cap" on the crown) does anyone have any suggestions about how to reattach it. Superglue?
Thanks in advance!
I've seen this happen but not on a Crown of this era.
Tom may have the Crown in His inventory if You can make out the part #, 11 ALACD is listed at the top of the second column from the left.
Cas-Ker Co will have it, genuine Bulova, simply tell them You need a Yellow Crown for the 11 ALACD.
P.S.
The stem looks incorrect in Your first image unless it is pulled to set position.