Let me know here and show us your watch so I can add you to the 5000 Club.
Well Stephen I know you have already added me to the club but any chance I get to show off this watch :) By the way my computer crashed the other day and I had to format my hard drive. Lost all my watch photos. Have to re shoot my entire collection. Started with the LE yesterday.
I believe this to be an original 5000. Case number is 6558800 and has Jun 10 1924 date..
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Movement serial number is 22657X date code is a triangle. Hands could have certainly been changed somewhere along the way.
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Here's what Steven posted awhile ago showing the criteria the watch would need:
Its the movement and case serial numbers. I've spent the last 5 years gathering a private database on all manner of vintage Bulova watch movements and I have a good understanding of the serial numbers on the original 5000 Lone Eagles.
Unlike most other models it would appear that Bulova ordered a batch of the same movements in 1926 in preparation for the release of the Lone Eagle watch. Whilst in 1926 they didn't yet have a name for the watch they did plan ahead. Ardé Bulova, Joseph’s son offered $1,000 prize money to the first pilot to make the crossing in 1926 and it is my thought that around the same time Bulova placed a large order of movements in order to be released as a commemorative watch (some consider the first commemorative watch ever). What came back for the Swiss factory was 5000 sequentially numbers 10AN movements with a 1926 date stamp. Bulova at some point also manufactured the American made corner-cut enamal 14K Gold Filled cases, also with a serial number range to fit the ordered 5000 movements.
The Original 5000 Lone Eagles that I have come across in the last 5 years have these serial numbers
Date stamp, movement model, mevement serial, case serial and jewel count
26 10AN 225751 XXXXXX 17
26 10AN 226044 6636667 17
26 10AN 226840 6634587 17
26 10AN 226934 6635298 17
26 10AN 226975 6636219 17
26 10AN 227205 XXXXXX 17
26 10AN 227326 6637786 17
26 10AN 227399 6560017 17
26 10AN 227730 6637411 17
26 10AN 228227 6636409 17
The movement will always start with 22XXXX and the case will be either 65XXXXX or 66XXXXX
Anything prior to these are lkely to be a Conqueror and anything post a 1927 later release.
These are my finding which I'm making public now after 5 years of study.
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