I am a little conflicted over the ID on this one. All of the other Clipper models have even numbers only where this one has all 12. The minute track looks correct and the seconds track as well. I just viewed a 1937 Commander with the white face and this now seems to be what this watch is only with a black face. http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1937-Commander-50 - Is it possible that this is a Clipper case with a commander face? Looking closer at the two cases there are more tiers on my case than the commander case.
With an unidentified / unknown Watch anything is possible....
Redial perhaps. Certainly has the Clipper case and I can't find anything else with the same case style.
Perhaps another player in the 'guess that unknown model' game.
Ok I'll play, I guess American Clipper case with a Commander dial.
At first I thought it was a commander because of the face then as I learned more on this site I started
looking closer at the cases. I was flipping back and forth then got a a closer look at the commander case. The dial and minute tracks seem to fit the case well and it looks sharp and the face is as found, the only things I had done on the watch were a good cleaning and the mainspring had to be replaced.
'COMMANDER' Dial looks wider at 3 - 9 , maybe We could compare measurements?
In reply to 'COMMANDER' Dial looks wider by FifthAvenueRes…
Mark, it looks wider in the last pic, but I suspect it's the camera angle. Doesn't appear odd in the pic of the dial taken dead on, so to speak.
I can post the measurements this evening. Would you want the measurement to the outside of the face ot to the inner and outer edges of the minute track?
idk what would be most conclusive, across the Dial point to point?
2 different Dials IMO - 'COMMANDER' looks wider but as Bob pointed out that could be an optical illusion.
OK, across the face at the 9 and 3 the dial measures 18.02mm and top to bottom 26.21mm.
To the inside of the minute track at same locations 13.73mm by 22.41mm.
I rechecked the movement and it is the 17 jewel 10ae which is correct for the american clipper where the commander had the 15j movement.
The sub-seconds chapter doesn't seem to emulate the six-sided shape of the minute chapter as it should. Sub-seconds chapter appears tonnaeu shape.