Well gentlemen, I love this Bulova model as you maybe can tell.
This has a pretty fresh redial, and a really neat 4 faceted crystal. It was really tarnished, and it actually looks much better not so danged close up.
I believe this to be a verison of the Surgeon, but it almost looks more Blackhawk than Surgeon.
Whatever it is, I love it!
This one will be a keeper and as you can see, his brothers have come to welcome their long lost soldier home!
Just on a fun side note, with this verison we will have 9 Surgeons in the database. Only 3 of the 9 have a 6 like in the ad above. The other six watches have the 6 obscurred.
Also ZERO of the three Blackhawks we have have the 6 showing. All three have the 6 obscurred.
Wow that thing did polish up nice plains. The wear I thought I saw in the eBay pics is gone!
So, maybe I am confused. Are you trying to talk your self OUT of the Surgeon ID? Based on the black, lume dial I'm inclined to go with the Black Hawk.
ps - the Surgeon and Black Hawks are all different from the adverts in that they don't have "12's" either, like they do in ads.
I'm thinking the larger central seconds ring is for better visibility in utilizing the centre seconds. This is more in line with use in medical applications, so I'm inclined to think the obscured numbers may be a proper 'Surgeon'. Although the Surgeon ads do not show this, this may be a Surgeon variant, regardless.
Just a thought, I'm going to do some more digging.
In reply to I'm at Black Hawk, purely by mybulova_admin
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BTW, that's an outstanding collection you have there!
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Thanks to you and jabs for the compliments! I really dig this group, it's been a few years putting it together. It's nice knowing others appreciate my silent struggle to master the wild untamed Bulova!
Plains, you are are a true Buladdict. Love these as well and in my opinion the dial is not a recent redial when I look at the lume. It looks old and faded and I'd bet it no longer glows, may not even be redialed as the hands match and these are often over looked. You won't know fr sure until the back of the dial is checked for a tech's ID # scribed into the back. No scribe and it's original. Just food for some extra thought on that notion and if I may add the hands perfectly match the perimiters of their dials.