Geoff Baker
Posted December 28, 2020 - 9:59pm
Hello Patrick, welcome to myBulova. War watches are tricky as they are often modified over the years. My guess is that yours is all original except for the strap. Actually I'm not sure the strap has any significance to the watch as I think it might be a later addition but we have no way to know. Generally we date watches using case date code and movement date code. For your watch I'm comfortable using the circle movement code for 1944 as these cases were not date coded.
I'll suggest this watch be classified as 1944 Bulova Military Issued 10AK. Here is one very similar