I have a beautiful rare 21 Jewel 1948 8AE Bulova 10k GF Gold watch. It is running but needs a cleaning. All of the gears turn and the watch will tick for minutes or hours then stop. The case is in good shape, it has the band. The crystal has a couple of very small scuffs. the numerals are painted gold with a thin black outline. I am guessing it is a Dewey, Douglas, or His Excellency from the late 40s.
In reply to First thing that should be by 1955mercury
Panel - we discussed this watch, http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1946-unknown-6903 in November last year and decided it was not an Engineer because we though the Engineer had a roman dial. We have two Engineers in the dB from this era, they both have roman dials. If we decide this is the Engineer, we should reconsider at least the watch linked above.
The 1945/48 Dewey face is the closest I have seen to this watch on an identified model. As you can see the 45 had no numbers around the sub dial, while the 48 does. That is why I am curious to see a 46 or 47 dewey face. Either way it is probably a form of a His Excellency SS or such. The problem with that theory is that most of the His Exc's I have seen have applied gold numbers not painted.
If it weren't for seeing two of the same on this site I would chaulk it up to a custom job.