This obviously is NOT a ladies watch.... but of course what the seller posted it as....
Name this explosion black/white dial....
P.S.... thanks for bidding me up Greg you special guy!! hahah....
In reply to What is that thing? Looks by NOVA
Haha... yeah you know.... I don't know exactly what dial that is.... I've seen several cases that match that from the mid 1930's watches.... the dial itself is very mid to late 1930's.... so... what I'm thinking it is.. is a mid 30's Ambassador with a variant dial. If you look at the mid 1930's the Ambassador had this style of case... and the dial would in fact be a variant that "went" with this style case for the time. Pretty damned rare and very sweet.
Like I said before I'm a rediculous sucker for this tri-colored grey/white/black explosion dial. I won't be reselling this one.
Oh and Greg thanks for the laughs when we spoke and for not overbidding me! BUT.. maybe I shouldn't have told you about Gixen! Hahah!
In reply to Thus my comment above about by mybulova_admin
Agree completely about it not being an LE. But it does look like they used the LE case for this watch and just left off the engraving. I haven't yet come across another case with the same shape and side steps.
At first I thought this was a Frankenbully, but now I'm thinking Plains has a new model.
Here's that 1934 Unknown with the two tone case that I had a few months ago...
www.mybulova.com/watches/1934-unknown-1253
Looks to be the same case design just using different color gold plate... and this dial isn't the same as the ad either. It's probably ok to assume there are variants.
In reply to If I recall this Watch the by FifthAvenueRes…
Yeah if you look at the link I provided it was stamped Bulova on the top of the case where it opened. Hinged... no markings inside. Who knows maybe a replacement case. It was however probably around the same time this watch will date too.
I've seen one other similarly marked case and I think it was also mid 30's.