Good Morning!
Picked this up yesterday.Here we have an excellent example of the interchangeability of Bulova parts. A President case with the Academy Award curtain dial. More info to follow on the movement when I get it in hand. Go figure? Bulova didn't do this.
Hmmm, pretty small picture, check it out here.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180759814936&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:US:1123
Of course, it's NOT going to stay this way!
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NO hmmm here Fifth , you know just as well as I, 40's case, 50's dial is just a frankenbullly. I'll make this find a 'Academy Award " as it should be. This watch just proves what any watchmaker can do with movements, dials and cases that can, will be and have been swapped out for customers or blatentely interchanged to increase value by a bad seller. In this case, not so, the seller has made no claim to AA models, I've bought from him since I started 8 years ago and I trust him 100%. This seller was and is one of my mentors who encouraged me, offered advice and gave me direction when I first started out doing repairs and after 22 years, he retired, I bought alot of his parts from his own watch shop and will continue to work with the same comittment to quality and accuracy that he has encouraged me to do so. Sorry but there's no hmmmm, could it be? here. Bulova did not do this, some watchmaker did it and I'm going to make it right again.
Mark, I just don't get it with you sometimes. We used to think only curtain dials were AA watches, then we saw through new ads that 2 -tone X dials in the same cases were also AA models but to hmmmm a 1940 ish case to a 1950 AA is just plain stupid, and ridiculas as you noted in your previous post.
Don't go hmmm on me now, your contradicting your own previous comments.