Bulova 1945 Pocket Watch

Submitted by whencehecame on
Manufacture Year
1945
Movement Model
17AH
Movement Date Code
Triangle
Movement Jewels
17
Case Serial No.
5235627
Case shape
Round
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Watch Description

Unsure of date; there are 3 date codes with triangle: 1926, 1935, and 1945.

Front
Back
Caseback
Movements
With Original Case
JimDon5822
Posted January 22, 2025 - 1:55pm

Everything points to a 1945 date on this watch.   Looks to be the unengraved version of the 1945 Bulova Buckingham Pocket Watch noting the dongle might have been changed at some point.      Great to see it with the original case and the chain is a nice touch.

1955mercury
Posted January 22, 2025 - 2:51pm

Nice package whencehecame . The best way to determine the year by the date code, when there's more than one year represented is to look up the years the particular movement was made in the movement data base on the the site. In this case the 17AH was made between 1945 - 1961. I had to look up dongle. I didn't know the meaning of that word. It's the watch chain. I don't recall ever seeing and ad with the chain included. 

Geoff Baker
Posted January 22, 2025 - 9:23pm

1945 Bulova Buckingham is a good match

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted January 23, 2025 - 4:07am

If the site is now identifying watch models by their Dial and Hands then it is a match,  the Case is not a match. 

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted January 23, 2025 - 4:24am

ad is 1946 

mybulova_admin
Posted January 23, 2025 - 5:59am

In reply to by FifthAvenueRes…

Advert originally posted by Jim back in December 2019., from The Salem News (Salem, Ohio) · 29 Nov 1946

mybulova_admin
Posted January 23, 2025 - 5:58am

The crown guard which I think is commonly referred to as a 'Bow' of the subjct watch is certainly different from that of the Buckingham and a good match for the Triumph.

Bulova Buckingham pocket watch

JimDon5822
Posted January 23, 2025 - 2:32pm

These pocket watches can be tricky.   The subject watch "bezel" and dial/font looks the same to me.   The hands match the Buckingham but not the bow.   The bow matches the Triumph but the hands to not match the ad.  Also the Montgomery seems to match the Bow and bezel but not the font.    I think based on the case bow and font I agree with Fifth and this is a Triumph with possible replaced hands or a variant with original hands.  We have only one ad confirming this model but it seems to be the best fit to a Triumph.  

mybulova_admin
Posted January 23, 2025 - 10:40pm

In reply to by JimDon5822

I did find another advert showing the case with matching bow, but it was unnamed.

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted January 24, 2025 - 1:30pm

In reply to by JimDon5822

In looking at the Hands of the black and white 'TRIUMPH' illustration:

The Hour Hand does not match the Minute hand, the Minute Hand being 'Index style' matching the subject Watch.  Being that the illustration is just that, an illustration I think the Hand discrepancy can be attributed to artist rendition error. 

 

fwiw