Bulova 1928 Lone Eagle

Submitted by William Smith on December 27, 2009 - 11:49am
Manufacture Year
1928
Movement Model
9AT
Movement Date Code
Square
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
320769
Case Serial No.
8419201
Case shape
CornerCut
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova & American Standard
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

1927 patent date as per (bad) photos

1927 Bulova watch
1928 Bulova watch
1928 Bulova watch
1928 Bulova watch
William Smith
Posted December 31, 2011 - 9:10pm

I'm looking for this watch to photo and update record.  If for no other reason that case SN adn pat date.

William Smith
Posted May 30, 2012 - 4:23pm

...I better check out my own old records.....this one needs to be deleted or updated.  It's well....incomplete.

mybulova_admin
Posted April 7, 2013 - 4:15am

Will any update on this watch?

William Smith
Posted June 16, 2014 - 5:53am

In reply to by mybulova_admin

I gotta get it out and take some more/better pictures and update record.

Alex
Posted August 1, 2015 - 2:19am

Hi Will, you got one yourself with an 84 number! can you check if case signature says New York or American Standard?

Alex
Posted August 12, 2015 - 10:14am

The system works........

William Smith
Posted August 12, 2015 - 8:24pm

So the case signatures of 1928 for some Bulova are usually "New York", yet in some cases starting with 84 digits, we see the earlier "Am Std" signature, suggesting these cases share charactoristics of 1927.

Or should I just say this case may be from 1927 even though it has a SN starting with 8?

I see this one's listed as 1927 Manufacturer date now....and I certainly didn't update it in the last 2.5 years or so.   

Should it be dated 1928 based on case serial number- to be consistent?  

Alex
Posted August 12, 2015 - 10:17pm

If we statistically look at all the case serials, we see that cases starting with 80 to 83 have a case signature with "New York" indicated and 1928 movements. In 1926 and 1927, the case signature was indicating "American Standard" that got replaced by "New York" in 1928. However, cases with number 84 to 86 all have American Standard, and NOT New York and come in 99% of the cases with a 1927 movement. For both men and woman watches. The only explanation I can come up with is that these cases from 84 to 86, despite the first digit being an 8, must be from 1927.