This Revere is question just sold for four hundrend and thirtysome dollars...This watch doesn't have the same dial that my Revere has or the others posted on this site....Could it possibly be the wrong dial on the watch or just the wrong name on a similar looking piece...I will the pros decide...It just srikes me as upsetting that this watch sold for so much with the wrong dial..which goes to show another buyer not knowing what he was buying...Granted this watch is beatuful regardless of the name...i just wonder if the buyer knew the difference or not....
and here is the Revere as it is posted on this site...That looks like mine...
It obviously was sent out for restoration, IMO, not bad. I would also venture to say the new owner Isn't going to be too upset with the restoration, I wouldn't be.
A purist, probably didn't bid on this and maybe the old dial was so screwed up that with all the other work that was done would have looked like crap with the old dial re-installed!
The seller of this watch consistently gets top dollar for his items. He's been around a long time and moves a lot of product. I believe that he took a bit of creative license with his description. I too have seen many of these 1920's sqaure cased Bulovas show up with this type of dial/hand combination. What I have not seen is an ad that proves that they were produced this way. It is certanly easy enough to switch dials on square 10AN series vintage Bulovas.
Jay
i also agree, you are correct,Jay is it? Your correct about this seller...the reason i commented on this watch is because i haven't seen this dial and watch combo, so that is why i was wondering about it...In the case of the Revere there is alot of similar cases, with or without the engrave that iam sure you can steal dials from..But from what was said i guess this watch later on came with this dial...i was just wondering if this would be correct...
If you take a look at the 1030-31 ad's that we have in our database, many of the models that had lumed dials and cathedral hands start transitioning to applied numbers and blued modern style hands, so this dial could be correct, we just don't have an ad to prove it yet.
The example that is in the database probably should have the cathedral style hands.
Yes, some models did make the transition to the newer style dial and hands. We know this for a fact because we have seen the ads. Case in point, The Sky Kings. It does seem strange to me that not a single ad has ever surfaced clearly showing one of the square cased models making this transition. The fact is, there is no proof that the face on the watch in question is correct. Remember that folks look to this site for correct information. If another one of these came up and a potential buyer checked here to find out if it was legit, would we be happy telling them that it was? Not me. Yes, it's a nice watch. If someone likes it then they should make it their own. But there is no proof whatsover that the watch shown was ever produced with that dial/hand combo.
Jay