Alex
Posted September 4, 2023 - 8:20pm
Hi neetstuf-4-u, you are right. The Ambassador was discontinued after 1931. So, what is happening here? This watch is not from 1933 but from 1930. The confusion comes from the first digit. Where you would expect that Bulova went into 1930 using the 0 like previous years e.g the 9 for 1929, for 1930 they didn’t. They started the year using the 3 for reasons unknown other than they must have disliked starting with 0000000. Focussing on the first 3 digits, indeed no 000 can be found, the watches are all stamped as 300. It continued with 301. After that is was back to the convention e.g. 003, 004, etc.
So, 1930 Ambassador with replacement movement.