Bulova 1953 Winchester

Submitted by Reverend Rob on July 31, 2015 - 10:59pm
Manufacture Year
1953
Movement Model
10CSC
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
5761823
Case shape
Round
Case color
Yellow
Gender
Mens
Watch Description
L3 for 1953, and a nice 10CSC movement in this heavily brassed out specimen. The dial is shaded, I hope it shows up as such, and I have its sister watch also, a WaterTite with the same specs and same dial which I will post separately.

I'm thinking Winchester here?  10CSC is from an AS 1320 ebauche. 

1953 Bulova Winchester
1953 Bulova watch
1953 Bulova watch
William Smith
Posted August 1, 2015 - 12:10am

Yep Winchester from me too.  Was their possible variant info for the shaded dial?  I don't remember.

Here's a snippet from 1955 first party ad we got from Bruce Shawkey.

You siad subject dial shading is similar to your Watertite?

mybulova_admin
Posted August 1, 2015 - 5:59am

Winchester case for sure, but the hands are different from all the Winchester adverts.

The base line model looks to have had a plain dial.

The advert above details that the Winchester "B" had a black dial and the 1954 price guide only lists variants A and B at $75.

Could possible be a movement swap.

Andersok
Posted August 1, 2015 - 7:25am

Tentative Winchester, for the same reasons as this other watch entry; The shaded dial available for the Winchester, as seen in the available ads and one posted model, does not match subject dial.

Geoff Baker
Posted August 1, 2015 - 8:00am

Ken, you make a good point regarding the shading. My thought is that the ad might be misleading, I can't remember a Bulova shaded as pictured in the ad. I'm going all in on the Winchester ID. I get it that a part or two may have been swapped out over the last 60+ years but I really think the subject  watch is a Winchester.

Andersok
Posted August 1, 2015 - 12:46pm

In reply to by Geoff Baker

Geoff, the ad does show an unusual shading pattern - certainly not the typical X that we often see; and there is one Winchester in the database already showing what appears to be the correct shaded dial for this model. A match to the ad in a Winchester case makes me feel the X type shading on this one is not correct for this model.

Geoff Baker
Posted August 2, 2015 - 7:35am

In reply to by Andersok

Wow, I completely missed that one Ken. Guess I can't say I've never seen THAT before any longer. Perhaps, I'm stepping back to tentative on these Winchesters.

jabs
Posted August 1, 2015 - 3:51pm

Agree with Winchester ID

JP
Posted August 1, 2015 - 7:57pm

Ditto jabs, two ticks.

Reverend Rob
Posted August 2, 2015 - 10:38am

Will, the shading is similar to the WaterTite, I will try and get the other one posted.