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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wow !!! very nice one ! hope you will redone the enemal on this one, it will be amazing if you do !
again, its a very nice one ! good buy !
Really nice engraving on this one. I agree with Brunswick.
1930 Bulova Brunswick
Very nice Brunswick. Beautiful Art Deco model. The case serial number reads 0109050 in my opinion. The zeros always stamp partially during 1930 visible in the subject watch.
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
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both left and right side on your ad seem with enemal... anyway it wil pop the eyes with a pinch of paint! 😁
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.
the watch of Geoff is how they looked when new. But somehow this type of enamel did not survive the test of time. It easily peels off. It must be a different process that was used and not the hard baked enamel of watches like the Franklin.
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.