I know Bulova wasn’t the only company to put some variation of Hudson Maxim’s name on a watch so I figured, what the hell, let’s see what the panel has to say. This watch belongs to a friend. He supplied the pictures.
The movement was made by Racine Freres. The only marks on the case appear to say GERBER SWISS.
Initially, I told him it doesn’t have the hallmarks of a Bulova. But I don’t know about the very early days and how Bulova did things. He found some reference in a form saying Bulova used Racine Freres movements in the earliest watches.
If this flat out isn’t an early Bulova in any way, please remove it from the database. It sure would be cool if it was though.
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The jury is still out. These watches, if they are something Bulova touched, are very early on in their watch selling timeframe.
Here's the example that is in the museum. The watch is inscribed on the back to June 1918 and like yours contains a 7 jewelled movement.
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Does the movement say Bulova?
As for a hallmark on the back side of the dial, I assume if there is none, that doesn’t prove anything either way but there is a hallmark, that would be an indicator and what it would indicate depends on the hallmark. Is that accurate?
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Bulova were not stamping their name on movements during this perod, but using SWISS made movements from other manufactures.
It's not known what the movement is stamped inside the above watch.
It's hard to say for certain if this is indeed a watch Bulova handled and sold? They certainly claim to be the makers of the 'Hudson Maxim' watches. We can only assume this applied to both pocket and wrist watches.
I've found an online reference to the 'Racine Freres' movements being dated to around 1914 to 1918.
For now though I'd be comfortable IDing as a 1918 Hudson Maxim for the sake of the database.