This appears to be a 1945 Bulova Officer based on attributions of the other black dial Officers in the database like the one below. This is a yellow gold case with black dial with lumed hour markers and hands. (I relumed the hands). The movement is a 10BS 15 jewels with a dual marked X and triangle date code. I could not find an ad showing a black dial officer so assume this is a tentative. .
Well at least we know it's all original.....here is another example in the database: https://mybulova.com/watches/1944-unknown-3935
Marked as Unknown, which I think for now we need to keep as there are too many differences between what we see in the advert and these watches.
In reply to Well at least we know it's… by mybulova_admin
There are already three similar watches in the DB attributed as an Officer so that is why I was going with tentative Officer.
https://mybulova.com/watches/1943-officer-10159
In reply to There are already three… by JimDon5822
OK, other watches that are a match previously ID'ed as Tentative Officer, I'll agree.
Officer - Tentative
Until an ad surfaces stating otherwise.
Cool watch, Jim. I agree it's original as presented and seems to lean towards being an Officer. Unfortunately as previously stated, there are too many documented variations to pin it as such at this time
EDIT: as noted above,
1945 Tentative Officer
Very cool watch, love this era. I am good with a tentative Officer and would suggest moving the unknown one to a tentative Officer as well.
1945 Bulova Officer (tentative)
Team - I'm just not a fan of assigning a "tentative" ID. I was tentative on several of the ID's Jim referenced and will remain silent on this one. I just don't like not having the hard evidence of the ID.
I count three for Officer, two Unknown. Any other countries want to weight in?