Hello Ken, Geoff, Rob and „mybulova_admin“ (sorry, I don’t know your name),
Thank you all very much for your expertise!
OK, the box might (!) be a match, but
- the dial is refinished
- the dial has a noticeable ding
- “SELFWINDING” isn’t executed professionally
- -hands aren’t correct
And moreover, the dial isn’t aligned properly. Hard to see from the small images, but a line going through the “12” and “6” hasn’t an angle of 90 degrees, but of 93.3 degrees. Look at the first photo: while the lugs are perfectly aligned horizontally, the dial looks sloped (aslant?).
What to do now? On the plus side:
- a Christmas present from my wife
- a nice looking Bulova
Hum. I’ll have to think that over……
BTW: better (larger) photos of the “Christmas Surprise Clipper” can be found here:
http://vintagewatchforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9809
BTW No. 2: on the vintagewatchforums I already posted an interesting Bulova Design Patent by which something like a “Bulova’s Piping Rock” was patented:
http://vintagewatchforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9037
I don’t know, if this Design Patent is already known here (I guess so) – if not, I can post it in the appropriate sub-forum-
Best regards
Martin