Just serviced and bought back to life. Have left the original paint on the dial and hands as it's in pretty good condition. Watch is running within a minute accuracy over a day.
Not sure if these were intended for either military or medical. It's actually a very small watch compared to other men's models of the same period. Case is about 26mm wide.
We have a few similar early center sweep hands watches in the database:
- http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1929-unknown-4728
- http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1929-unknown-8796
- http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1930-unknown-8445
- http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1932-unknown-4988 (same a subject watch)
- http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1935-unknown-6124
Case in marked 'BULOVA QUALITY'.
I also like the serial numbers 1196469 (case) and 604609 (movement).
In reply to Great find! Is the ad from by Alex
Sorry, yep the adverts I found were all from 1931.
I tend to agree that it's more of a category, but the advert does state nurse's model, and for the sake of categorising these for now I think a general model name will suffice until such time we can confirm or not.
In reply to Came across this 1924 ad and by Kathy L.