Geoff, thanks a bunch for the information. 2 questions:
1. the watch is running fine and keeping time. does it still need serviced at this point?; should i have the case and #s on the face cleaned?
2. so, this is not a bulova case or bulova face, but is a bulova movement, did bulova sell their movements to other companies who then placed them in their own cases with their own faces OR did other companies buy movements whose cases had been damaged or wore out?
i am sure my father must have purchased the watch this way. i need to research this process more. I have read that Hamilton did this with some of their watches and they were also marked Hamilton Movement on the face.
thanks again for the inforrmation. amazing this watch still runs and keeps time after sitting for all these years (50 years or so).
Scott