1948-50 His Excellency Director or something else??

Submitted by OldTicker on March 27, 2011 - 12:07pm

I was at a local Auction sale yesterday hoping to pick up some old magazines with Bulova advertising to add to this site, instead this is what I brought home,

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Movement is a 21J 7AK with a 48' date stamp, case has the look of a "His Excellency", Diamond (tested real) dial looks like the "Director" models listed in the database. Crystal specs are 21.6mm x 17.6mm with a slight curve on the short measurment like many His Excellency's, President's AA's and others. The case is Bulova stamped 10K Gold Filled.

I could not find anything in the database or ad's that have the dual horizontal lines between the lugs and glass. At first glance it looks a lot like a His Excellency/Statesman.

Any Ideas??

I will be at another sale this afternoon so maybe I will get lucky and find some ad's this time!

shooter144
Posted March 27, 2011 - 3:28pm

Doesnt look like a magazine.....

plainsmen
Posted March 27, 2011 - 3:31pm

Ah.. so this is what you picked up.. .sheesh... that's a sweet looker for that price!  It does have that Excellency look.. hrmm.

shooter144
Posted March 27, 2011 - 5:45pm

Just so you all go  awwwdamn thats too bad....my father collected Life magazines, ALL of them...was gonna go through and find some ads......oops they all gone ALL of them . Says his brother traded em off or something. sigh.

geezer_D
Posted March 27, 2011 - 7:02pm

 Has that same dial, sans diamonds, with the numerals indicated on the seconds bit as my "unknown AA" (or whatever it is).

OldTicker
Posted March 28, 2011 - 10:40pm

Yes geezer,

Seems they used this style of dial on many 46-49 watches. It also seems that they liked to switch movements around in the same models (17J-21J Director's)

They don't make it easy!

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