Military non Issue ? Case has lost most of its plating and no markings other than serial number but evidence of what looks like a personal engraving that has been polished out . Fitted a NOS pigskin strap. Keeping remarkable time despite having been thrown around in the postal system from Italy for nearly 3 weeks !
Thank you for posting your watch. It looks like the movement is double marked with a + and a o so that would make this a 1944 in my opinion. The case is a military style. I would classify this as a 1944 Bulova Military Non-issue.
It is rumored that these watches with no Military nomenclature on the casebacks were issued to U.S. Navy personnel, the case was then engraved with the name of the owner.
How true this is? I do not know.
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the Case of this watch is most likely Silver.
We've been naming these 'ORD DEPT', the correct name is the '10AK'
There is this tidbit that shows figure 1) (no markings on the caseback) as new manufacture.
interestingly the subject has been engraved / personalized at one time.
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I will add that having a 1943 manufacture date and then being non-issue would not make mch sense. WWII was in full swing in 1943 and these watches could not be made fast enough for the Military.
1943 Bulova Military Non-Issue is a good ID for this one
Just an observation but does the the case serial numbering on these ' Military non issues ' have any significance as they do not follow the usual Bulova convention of letter and 6 numbers , but have just 6 numbers ?
Nice example!
1943 Bulova Military Non-issue
Generally Non-Issue means it is a military watch but absent of military marks. Many watches were sold after WWII as surplus and military marks were removed. Not saying this one is but it is one of the possibilities.