Bulova 1944 Military Issue

Zap, do you still have the watch?

Here is why. This snippet from page 215 of the book "General Kenney Reports: A Personal History Of The Pacific War."

Maybe your watch is one of the hundred. If so, it is an important timepiece.

Well, more important!  :-)

It would have been a simple thing for Arde to call the people who could expedite this "order", get several of their engravers to do the work overnight, and have them delivered to General Kenney the next morning.

It was done to impress, and it certainly impressed Kenney enough to write a whole paragraph about the incident in his book.

It is possible that the name was added later, as it looks like a different script  done by a different engraver to me.

Could have been "To ___  _____,

                                In sevice of

                                U.S. Armed Forces

                                Bulova Watch Co."

Then the name added when it was issued to the recipient.

It's looking more like the real deal to me the more I think about it!

Here's a link to the whole book, you can read it online.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tWdbngbCc84C&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=arde+bulova+gives+president&source=bl&ots=RMx3nX3LBI&sig=0AauzbmMS5QUpEY8Am9PPgbAKZY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3SJ1U6nMH4eWPdnhgagG&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ

If you want the hands lumed to the same color as the dial I can do that. I have orange lume materials.

JP

No no no no, it don't work like that Zap.

You gotta send it TO ME!!!  

Don't need the whole watch, just the hands. Come on bobbee, you'r just trying to con him out of a possible very rare watch you rascle.

JP

 Who me?

If I was gonna do that, I would have kept schtum and asked him to sell it to me!

DOH!  AWWWW!