I believe this is a Bulova Princine Ladies watch.
The case is different from the other Princine's in the DB due to some engraving arches on the back of the case.
The case has the Case numbered beginning with a 1 however, the movement 6TA is from 1924 - 1929.
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14 yearsIs there a date code on the movement. I suspect that the watch will be from 1925.
I'd say it's a Bulova 6511, despite the variation is jewel count (15 v 16).
We don't see to many adverts for 16 jewelled movements even though there were fairly common during this period.
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14 yearsFor the early 1923 to 1925 watches we have established that in most cases the 2nd number is the date code (not the first as with post 1924/25). We believe that 1925 was the year they cut over to the first digit indicator.
Prior to this most of pre 1924 Bulova watches have a case serial number staring with a '1', something we still don't fully understand. The weird thing is the cases predating '1' was actually '2' (used for 1917, 18 & 19).
Early case numbers arer still a bit of a mystery, but we have enough samples to at least say with a certain level of confidence that:
- 1920 to 1923 - all seems to start with '1'
- 1923 to 1925 - the second number determines the year
- 1925 to 1949 - the first number determies the year
The subject watch having a second serial of '5' says to me it's an early 1925 Bulova 6511