Case: 14K Rolled Gold Plate - Rose Colored Bezel - Case Serial Number on Stainless Steel Back Movement: 8AD 17j Swiss Unadjusted - Movement Symbol J9 Reference: Complete Price Guide To Watches, page 714 Top Left Column Restoration by Shawn Bourget-bourg01 on ebay New Owner 12-15-2010: Given to Heather Michaels for Her 20th Birthday-Wear it in good health Love Grampa ECO STYLE TANKER.
Grampa,
I have the same model and version, a 1948 which leads Me to believe this is from the same era. a '49? That, and the J9 is a dead giveaway.
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Shall we wager on that?
Had you going there for a minute LOL. You are absolutely right! Take a look at the 194x Senator, I won from Shawn Bourget today.
Wayne
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Mark
When I got that watch & with the 8AD movement with J9 date stamp, I was thinking backward like a 5th grader. N=1970, M=1960, L=1950, K=1940, J=1930. The date code J9 was added for 1949 after I had entered the watch in the data base. Then yesterday in your Grampa note above, you stirred the pot a little & I checked the date codes and saw J9 for 1949. So I agreed with you yesterday. Today thinking like a 5th grader again, I looked at the movement again and it's an 8AD.
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Yesterday I happened to buy a 1941 Senator from Shawn Bourget and it has an 8AE. Now this 5th grader stuff, 8AD comes before 8AE.
I believe the Senator with the 8AD J9 date stamp is 1939.
Wayne
Wayne,
I'm not sure it works that way, the 8AD is a successor to the 8AH. Go figure.
Neat site Mark, never been there before or heard about!
Perhaps I errored! Thanks for the information. I think I flunked fifth grade. LOL
Wayne
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Wayne,
When on that page look to the top right for a search, search Bulova.
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Hi All,
For what it's worth, I've seen this Senator model with the 8AC,8AE,8AD,8AH and now I have one with the 7AP movement. So I think this could relate to the different years this was produced.
IE, the 7Ap and 8AE models I have are both dated 1942, the 8AH is dated 1945, and an 8AD dated for 1949. I have also seen this movement stamped with both, J9 and 49 togeteher so I am pretty certain that it's for 1949.
Now if you look at the 8AE in the Senator Wayne bought off me it has 3 date stamps, for 1941,1942 and 1943. Now try figuring that one out!! Something like that is very rarely seen and in retrospect I think I should have kept that one and sold one of my others with a single date code.
For what it's worth Wayne, hold onto that one because I really do believe it's very rare, like a misprinted stamp. Enjoy
In reply to Hi All, For what it's worth, by bourg01
Hey Shaun... I've got one of those triple stamped movements in a Corrigan... so... this is pretty rare is what your saying?
YES, I believe that it is. If you stop to consider that the date stamp is sopposed to denote the production year of the movement it should have only 1 stamp. Yours shows 1937,1938, and 1939, rather odd don't you think? Also, this is not something that is commonly seen. I'd say in 8 years I've only seen a small handful, less than a half dozen.