Can anyone shed any light on what this 1935 lone eagle/president looking piece is. Strange calibre movement i've not come across before 10AR 7j? Bezel measures around 37.5 by 25.5mm total
You have a pix of the movement? Sounds like a Westfield. They did a lot of 7 jewel movements.
Jay
Hey Fifth,
Is that advert picture of the webster or an LE? You may want to amend http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1932-lone-eagle-1499 if it is the webster.
Fifth
"There are no early 'LONE EAGLE' "variants" that are known". This ad contradicts your varients quote. In 1931 there are two different Lone Eagles present in the ad. Flip a coin as to which is the varient. Notice the top watch has a different engraving pattern than the bottom watch. Also, notice the difference in the dials (Top watch shows lum numbers & cathedral hands, bottom watch has applied numbers & modern hands. The hands on the bottom LE are most probably gilded modern hands. If not, we have have to call my 1931 LE with gilded hands a varient also (availble in the database).
In reply to Black hands IMO Wayne, by FifthAvenueRes…
Gents the top one is the earlier of the two.
Note how Bulova transitioned a number of their models this way. It was a nice change over from the late 20s painted dials and radium hands into the newer mid and later 30s raised gold numbers and hands.
The model I have is the later model with raised gold numbers and hands. Unless the numbers are black I'd suggest that black hands might me a replacement, easy enough to do and very common parts. (Gold hands in an old black and white photo wouldn't work and why put black hands on a gold dial......owners choice perhaps)
Either way what I firmly believe is that what we see above is simply the transition of the same watch into sporting a later style that Bulova was introducing.
Have a look at a number of early 30's Bulova watches and you'll see the same trend.
As far as the subject watch goes, the jury is still out for me, If it has a 7 Jewel movement then chances are its a Westfield and someone has replaced the dial.
We have an ad showing a very similar watch as a Westfield.
In reply to Gents the top one is the by mybulova_admin
I agree with Fifth on this one. I had never seen that Bulova 7 jewel movement before but have since learned that it indeed was produced by them.
Jay
