I am unsure if this is a Conquerer or Lone Eagle. Hoping you fine people can help.
Dear Merlynda, thank you for posting this beautiful watch. Being from 1926, it is a Conqueror. The name change to Lone Eagle only happened in July 1927, after “Lone Eagle” Charles Lindbergh had successfully concluded his famous solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927.
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Just to note that a 1926 stamped case and movement can also be a Lone Eagle. It's a bit tricky to determine the cut over from one model to another (Conqueror > Lone Eagle) as the Conqueror would have been pre June/July 1927 and the Lone Eagle post.
Still, watches built and assembled as Conquerors in 1926 were indeed re-badged and sold as Lone Eagles in 1927.
I personally believe that the best way to determine if it's a rebadged Conqueror is to see if the movement has an arrow -> date code along with the triangle date code. We have recently learnt that Bulova used an arrow -> for 1927 as well as 1937, but changed it so a square for 1927.
If it has the dual arrow and triangle date code stamping on the movement then I would a 1927 Bulova Lone Eagle, but if just the triangle, then a 1926 Bulova Conqueror.
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