Bulova 1940 -Unknown

Submitted by haowan9723 on August 30, 2014 - 5:42am
Manufacture Year
1940
Movement Model
7AP
Movement Date Code
Omega
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
0761539
Case shape
Rectangle
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

case material; 10k yellow rolled gold

haowan9723 1940 Bulova Unknown 09 13 2014
1940 Bulova watch
1940 Bulova watch
1940 Bulova watch
1940 Bulova watch
haowan9723
Posted September 1, 2014 - 7:26am

does that make it a franken?

Geoff Baker
Posted September 2, 2014 - 5:50am

I'm not ready to concede that yet haowan. It is clearly an "Unknown" watch to me, I find no matches at all but I don't necessarily think it was 'built up'.

bobbee
Posted September 2, 2014 - 8:15am

Dial is proportionate to the case, and original in my view. The movement is correct for the case.

All original. 

haowan9723
Posted September 3, 2014 - 4:53am

Are movements, dials and cases from different years, or 'unknown' watches seen often with Bulovas?

bobbee
Posted September 3, 2014 - 6:22am

All watches can have movement/dial hands changed, as long as they fit, not just Bulova.

Your watch looks all original to me, and the watchcase matches a known model, the Phantom, but with a slightly larger movement than used in any we have in the db.

Tough call.

Geoff Baker
Posted September 6, 2014 - 6:28am

Panel - let's get the vote out on this beauty

Unknown

William Smith
Posted September 7, 2014 - 5:34am

The case measurements of subject watch are measurement-error close to Phantom case.

If I vote Unknown, then I'm saying a watch with the same case as the Phantom for this period could have a different model name based on having the sub-second feature.  I don't know if Bulova would give a different model name if the only difference is presence/absence of sub-second.  Do we have other examples where only  this sub-second distinction constitutes a different model name (or even different variant of same model name)?  I don't remember....

bobbee
Posted September 7, 2014 - 7:29am

The Presidents of this time were once thought to have no sub dial, IIRC.

mybulova_admin
Posted September 7, 2014 - 7:46am

 

There are certainly Presidents of this period without a subdual, but they are all 21J.

So this one is either an Unknown or a Non-Conforming.

bobbee
Posted September 7, 2014 - 7:56am

I wasn't saying this is a President, I was answering Will's question about other models with this distinction Stephen.

I think it may be a late Phantom.