Bulova 1946 Florence

Submitted by Camsgram on
A
Manufacture Year
1946
Movement Model
5AB
Movement Date Code
Square
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
653682
Case shape
Tonneau
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Ladies
Watch Description

Trying to identify this watch that was my mother-in-laws.  Not sure if it's 1936 or 1946.  From what little research I've done, it looks like the Shirley watch.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1946 Bulova watch
1946 Bulova watch
1946 Bulova watch
1946 Bulova watch
1946 Bulova watch
jabs
Posted August 26, 2017 - 10:40am

Shirley appearance here, but it is not clear 14k gold case, Shirley is known with 10k gold filled case

Camsgram
Posted August 26, 2017 - 10:42am

Runs and keeps time.

jabs
Posted August 26, 2017 - 10:46am

year of manufacture will be 1946

Geoff Baker
Posted August 29, 2017 - 7:41am

Hello camsgram, welcome to myBulova. I'm kind of at a loss to ID this watch. As far as I can tell, it's identical to Shirley, other than the gold content listed on the case back. Jaroslav is correct that the Shirley wasn't advertised in solid gold

Right now, I'm at 1946 Unknown for the ID

mybulova_admin
Posted September 2, 2017 - 1:53am

Agreed that everyting points to a Bulova 'Shirley', but no mention of a 14K version, so I'm also with Unknown, until such time we can confirm the model came with a solid gold variant.

Andersok
Posted September 7, 2017 - 7:45am

Agree with above observations. Unknown at this time.

JimDon5822
Posted December 22, 2019 - 11:14pm

 

The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) · 13 Dec 1946

14kt gold version of the Shirley

1946 Florence "A". 

jabs
Posted December 23, 2019 - 6:49am

1946 Bulova Florence "A", well done Jim

Kathy L.
Posted December 23, 2019 - 10:46am

Nice ad match Jim!

1946 Bulova Florence "A"