Doesn't look like a redial and I can't see a movement symbol. Looks like a senator but is it a 1943 or is it 47 both years used they movements the radium is still on the hands and numbers.
Lumed dial and hands. I'm in for Blackout if purchased in America, Radio City if purchased in Canada.
http://www.mybulova.com/sites/default/files/vintage_ads/bulova%20ad%201…
I don't have any papers for it but I can tell you it came from the U.S.
This is the listing from the bay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111268855915?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid… (I think I got a nice little bargain for 3 watches)
What year do you guys reckon? I'm swinging towards 43/44, although I do think it's slightly crazy to have a glow in the dark watch during a war lol.
Radium was restricted during the war years, but not sure when and by how much. If an watch co. had surplus Radium paint, they would have used it on the watches, but Bulova was one of a series of companies manufacturing with contracts for the military. This probably meant the MilSpec ones got the Radium first and foremost, and the Civvy ones didn't? This may put it at post war, at least for the dial and hands, but wartime production was probably not consistent, and gaps between the movt and case would have been common.
There is what looks like a service mark with the numbers 811228 the 8 at the start could possibly be B or at a stretch 0. Another one with just 1 and 4 (I think) and the last is 71.
One is neatly engraved just under the bulova stamp in the case the others are pencil or lightly scratched on.
Perhaps I think to much but your more likely to take a newish watch to a really good jewelers for it's first service (I think), so my Sherlock Homes type deduction thinks that's the first because it's neatly engraved? It's also more than likely that I'm miles out lol.
Those are marks left by the watchmakers, and some just have tidier engraving hands. All are different, in that some are job numbers, guild numbers, or dates. I use dates, and your 811228 could be 1981 Dec 28. The first service for this watch would probably have been in the 50s or 60s. They should be done every 4-6 years, but this rarely happens.