Case size: 12s - Picked this watch up with a couple elgins. Believe it is a 1930 Bulova.
Thank you for posting this beautiful pocket watch. 1930 looks about right. I suspect it is a model 470 gold filled engraved dial variant based on this 1924 ad and like this one. https://mybulova.com/watches/1926-470-9143 The engraving varies and this flower pattern is quite unique from what I have seen before on a mens pocket watch. Very nice.
I have to find a replacement stem and crown for it but I love it. I'm a little ashamed to say I bought a group of gold filled 12s pocket watches (Elgin 383, Elgin 315, Elgin 303, Illinois 127 (base metal) and a Glamor) just for the Bulova. As the 1920s-early 1930s Bulova just seems to be the vintage pocket watches I gravitate towards.
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Was Bulova still using the old model reference number in the 1930s? By this period we'd expect it have been assigned a model name instead, but we've yet to find a match for the dial engraving.
If we are happy to carry forward the last known model identifier (470) for a watch then I agree that for now we could ID as a 470 and update when we find the newer model name.