Miss Air Warden vs Trained Nurse

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Submitted by samjrose on

Ok y'all, I have questions.  It appears to me that the ads for these 2 watches are really similar. To quote Mugatu: "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!". None of the ads mentioned (there are a couple more Trained Nurse ones in the DB) list what color the sweep second hand was. 

Miss Air Warden: 

1944 Bulova Miss Air Warden, Sentry

Trained Nurse: 1941 Bulova Registered Nurse watch advert

Both have sweep hands that are dark, there was a later version of the Nurse that added a red sweep: 

1953 Vintage Bulova Ad - Courtesy of Jerin Falcon  Is it just me??

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted July 15, 2026 - 4:43am

No, it would seem there was a change in the name during the war years? 

One can assume the name switched back post war, date of manufacture would determine the model name. 

samjrose
Posted July 15, 2026 - 3:09pm

Potentially---the database only has 1941 ads for the Trained Nurse and 1943 ads for the Miss Air Warden. I'm going to do a ridiculously deep dive into newspaper archives I have access to for my real day job (lol) and see what I can come up with.

Kathy L.
Posted July 16, 2026 - 6:19pm

Yes I agree probably a name change for the wartime, there were a few of those.  Also sometimes Canada had a different name to America.

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