I found most of the information on the internet by comparing pictures of the movement. I found the movement (I think it is a Cal 10AKCHS from 1943/44), but I can't find a Bulova watch with the same case, dial and case back. The watch is gold plated, steel back, 30mm diameter.
Great watch but unfortunately unknown. It looks similar to this one we have as an unknown but missing the minute markers at the 10 intervals. https://mybulova.com/watches/1945-unknown-2460 Possibly a Commuter from an ad but still looking for more documentation of this model name. Can you confirm if there is a date code on the movement.
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I made pictures from the dial, datecode and crown.
The dial doesn't have the sub minutes, the datecode has a + (or cross?) but also a square.
I sure looks like the watches in the link, except for the dial and crown.
I love these WWII era military style watches. We haven't found a model for this one yet. Sounds like your movement has a double date stamp which happened from time to time.
Unknown for now.
Interesting that it has a 1943 and 1946 date code and a 1947 Serial number case. I would guess this is one of the many surplus watches sold after world war II. Just speculating it was a 1943 movement that was counterstamped after the war in 1946 and cased and sold in 1947.
Generally speaking we would ID this a non-military issue Bulova.
Hi everybody, thanks for your reactions. The Bulova Commuter from the ad does look like my watch, but I can't explain the dial without the minute markers. Could it be that Bulova made new dials for the 1947 model of the Commuter ? I haven't seen this dial on pictures of other Bulova watches.
With a square overlay on an X, I would date this one to 1946 and classify it as a Military Non-Issue