HELP - 1955 ? -Nowhere to be found. I hope I can get an ID so I will know what hands and crystal to use. It runs good and the case and dial are in pretty good condition
I am not finding an ad match but did find this Unknown on Lisa's site that might give you the crystal specs. https://www.watchophilia.com/photogallery/bulovas-1950-1959/a1957-gedney/#!
Unknown for now
This ad has a different dial and it is poor quality to see the case details but is the only ad I can find with this name and crystal shape. Maybe variants. Between this ad and Lisa's watch I would say these are the type of hands it had.
It does look like that Gedney. When I went to the link she has evidently named it Gedney.
In reply to It does look like that by brandall54
Yes I noticed that. We are reluctant to ID a watch by the crystal specs alone. Will see what everyone thinks. Since it is the only watch named with that crystal maybe we will be able to do a tenative ID with that name.
Two parts of the puzzle with this watch. Crystal specs giving us a model name suggestion and then and a rare advert showing a watch that looks to be a match.
I'm certainly at a tentative Bulova Gedney
1955 Bulova Gedney - Tentative
I'm good with
1955 Bulova Gedney - Tentative
Hold the phone....... I did some digging and retract my vote. In after much discussion in June 2017, we named this model Pelham as seen here
https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1957-pelham-8706?page=1
https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1957-pelham-6803
The more I look at the Gedney ad, I don't think we are looking at the same watch. Side contours in ad appear stepped.
I'm changing my vote to
1955 Pelham - tentative.
Pelham crystals are very common, I've seen lots of them. I suspect the Gedney and the Pelham are the same watch, the name changed.
That advert is suspect and difficult to make out, IMO.
I'd go with tentative Pelham.
Might be a year of production model name thing also.