Both serial numbers (case and mvmt) are difficult to read, and are my best guess. Case starts with a "0" and movement is date stamped 1929. I am pretty confident this is a 1930 Brunswick. and the first one submitted since 2014. Band is a replacement and reasonable facsimile of original equipment.
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Like a number of models from this period I have wondered if these were all enamelled, or just enhanced in the advert to look that way.
See Lone Eagle, Spencer.
Geoff's Brunswick certainly looks be have something resembling enamel.
1930 Bulova Brunswick
In reply to Like a number of models from… by mybulova_admin
1930 Bulova Brunswick, HERE'S mine. I didn't do anything to mine, this is exactly how it came to me. To Martin's point however, I did touch up an Accutron Astronaut bezel many years ago using Testers brand model car paint (gloss, not flat black). I carefully rubbed it in and buffed off what was left on the surface.
So is it fair to say that the 1929 Lone Eagle and Spencer were also enamelled in the same way, as the advert also looks to show a black arround the top and bottom bezel designs.
I don't disagree that the Brunswick was enamelled, I'm just curious what others think about these other models also potentially being also enamelled.
I do believe those models also had this black wash. In their ads, Bulova never indicated though. For models like the Franklin, Treasurer, Cyrano, Wadleigh that had the “true enamel”, they used the wording “inlaid with black enamel”. Hence my suspicion that this black we see is not enamel but something else that subsequently doesn’t stand the test of time. By lack of better words I just call it “black wash” to differentiate it from the true enamelled watches.