Bulova 1938 American Clipper

One of my personal favorite engraved watches from the 30's. I purchased this one cheap as a "parts watch" for the band. It looked bad in photos; had a cracked , scratched and chipped glass crystal and was sold as "overwound/not running".

When I cleaned it up a bit and saw how nice the case, face  and band condition was, my plan changed. Didn't have the heart to cannibalize it. When movement was out of the case, it was indeed holding a full wind, but appeared the second hand was catching the hour hand. Hands were at 5:45 when received. When the watch was reverse set back to 12 o'clock it began to run.  Replaced the crystal, polished it up and after carefully tweeking the hour hand, it runs and keeps time within 2 minutes over 24 hrs. Based on overall condition (note prominent center groove on crown) , my guess it that when the crystal was damaged, it depressed onto the face and bent the hour hand at which point the watch was permanently relegated to the sock drawer as a lost cause....

1938 American Clipper "F" on the original band that actually comfortably fits my wrist