Bulova 1938 President

Submitted by cszwed on June 6, 2013 - 11:37am
Manufacture Year
1938
Movement Model
7AP
Movement Date Code
Arrow
Movement Jewels
21
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
8419762
Case shape
Rectangle
Case color
Yellow
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

I found this Bulova about two weeks ago in my late aunt's house. It belonged to my uncle. It is a 7AP 21 jewel watch - http://szwed.org/bulova7ap.jpg - ttp://szwed.org/bulova7apcopy.jpg - http://szwed.org/bulova7apcopy2.jpg - Does this model have a name?

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Reverend Rob
Posted June 10, 2013 - 10:35am

The dial is awfully crisp for one so old, usually the moisture has done some damage and flakes are common.

Geoff Baker
Posted June 7, 2013 - 7:16am

Great looking watch - I think it IS a Minute Man - President model has engraving - I'm actually wearing mine as I type these words......

bourg01
Posted June 7, 2013 - 4:43pm

Not a Minute Man, the MM has a slight tonneau shap to it. I'm all in with a President, variant n/a.

mybulova_admin
Posted June 8, 2013 - 4:20am

I believe all Minute Man models of these era had 17J movements.

I agree it's more likely to be an unknown variant of the President (21J). We have an advert for an unengraved President from this era.

Either the minute or hour hand are incorrect.....non matching pair.

OldTicker
Posted June 10, 2013 - 2:06am

Case dimensions will help...the Presidents were the longest, and didn't the Minute Man have a slight Tonneau shape to the crystal? besides being only 17J...

alien Ant
Posted June 10, 2013 - 9:30am

Like I said wrong minute and sec. hands.

William Smith
Posted June 11, 2013 - 3:19pm

The possible redail would not impact the model ID for me.  I'll update record from 1937 to 1938 based on case serial number.  alien Ant may be right about hands, but again, no impact on the model ID based on hands from me.

JP
Posted August 12, 2013 - 11:14am

The case could be made that if the hands are not correct that maybe the redial did happen and the owner lost one of the correct hands or the person who sent it out for redial lost a hand and replaced with what was available.

JP
Posted August 21, 2013 - 12:11pm

Has any one seen this case with the same dial only no sub seconds provision?? I have one and it has no sub seconds on it.