WWII Bulova ORD CORPS. Stainless Steel Case measures 39mm lug to lug x 32mm wide non inclusive of the Crown while using Calipers. White Dial shows Military standard Arabic numerals and Black printed tracks. Hour and Minute Hands are Military radium and a radium 10AK Military Seconds Hand appears on a sub Dial fully obscuring the 6. Anti-magnetic dust shield and Gasket between Caseback and Movement. 10 sided Stainless Steel Caseback screws on and is stamped as shown.
* although the Movement is Dated to 1944 this style of Military Case did not appear until 1945-'46. as found - glass in poor condition.
In reply to As usual, this is a perfect by stoddrob
StodoRob - I think you are missing the point of the site. No one here is an expert on Bulova watches, some folks have lots of expeirence & are willing to impart that knowledge right here for free. I am a student & learning about Bulovas. I for one see the crap on the auction sites & see so many pieces of crap put together by folks out to take advantage of the ignorant. I think it's much better to be aware than to have your ass taken to the cleaners by someone that knows that these watches can be put together from parts from several watch manufacturers, that made WW II watches & be sold to the ignorant for a hefty profit. There are more WW II watches out there than we had soldiers to wear them. Read what you want, wherever you want, your choice. Buy what you want, sell what you want. Write what you want. I'll choose weither or not I want to read it.
In reply to I dunno Man, I consider this by FifthAvenueRes…
Necesary as well. Wayne has some legitimate points, as do you.
I should say tho that patina from that era could easily be from say 1950 instead of the 40's, and no tool marks are not really a good indication of it never having been worked on or swapped. Ive seen tons of running watches with a number of jewelers scribes showing not a scratch anywhere (10x) on the movement. Skille dworkers in that era were indeed skilled !!!! Screwing up what equates to an $800 - $1000 Bulova in those days by scratching up the movement would likely be a career ender...but your point is still valid...lol wow how e gonna figure this one out?
Do we have a case from Waltham and Elgin and a Hammy to look at the tool marks inside the case and see how they cut them compared to what we mostly consider a proper Bully??? That may be the only way to ID these cases (if there is even a differance in the tool marks)
In reply to Bulova 'Type A-11 Navigation' by FifthAvenueRes…
That ad is great. Points out they are identical to those issued, but I also think it's saying they were not issued. Sold by Bulova- probably the extra they had that were not supplied to the government. Great ad! It does say "US Government Surplus made by Bulova", and I'm kinda reading between the lines on the Non-Issue translation.
In reply to That ad is great. Points out by William Smith