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Geoff Baker
Posted January 24, 2016 - 7:21am

Hello favorite watches, welcome to myBulova. This certainly is a beautiful watch. Bulova didn't make a lot of solid gold watches so when we see one we have both a special treat and a special challenge identifying and dating it.

In the era of your watch we find date codes and manufacturer markings on both the case back and movements. Solid gold cases however, don't always have manufacturer marking and rarely have date codes. The personalization gives a place to start on the case.

A movement date of 1949 and the personalization difference of three years seems to indicate that either the movement was changed for some reason or that the two components were married together at some point down the road. It is possible that the watch isn't all Bulova and that the case was custom made and fitted with a Bulova moment. Photos of the outside and inside of the case back would further assist us in identifying it.

By the way, I also suspect that your watch is a man's watch. Ladies watches of this time period were very small and mens watches were much smaller than they are today. The beauty of this is that mens watches of the period are considered unisex today.

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