The watch below has a 10BC 17 jewel swiss movement marked 1948. The case is in rose gold and marked Bulova quality , number 6019052 , no mention of gold content. The case looks like a 1943 Brewster or a later 1945 Gedney. The face of the watch looks like a 1944 Alderman which has a 10BC movement. Both the case and the watch face are in excellent condition and the movement is working. Bizarely the second hand has eith been painted red or replaced.
I hope this is not another custimized watch . :-)
terry
There is more than just the strap to distinguish the five models that look quite a bit alike--the Attorney, Brewster, Galahad, Emporer, and Jefferson. I have summarized below what I see to be the differences, based on the advertisements. The dates are the dates of the ads that show the watch.
1941 –Attorney- rose gold, 17 jewel, two wide rings on lugs, plain bezel
1942 – Attorney - yellow gold, 17 jewels, design same case as previous year
1943 – Attorney - rose gold, 17 jewels, design same case as previous years
Attorney Dimensions:
Case: 38.8mm lug to lug x 25.5 without crown (38.1 w/out lugs)
Crystal: 23.7mm x 19.9mm (CMT346-14)
1941 –Brewster - rose gold, 17 jewels, two narrow rings on lugs, plain bezel
1942 – Brewster - rose gold, 17 jewels, design same case as previous year
1943 – Brewster - rose gold, 17 jewels, design same case as previous years
Brewster Dimensions -
Case: 36.7mm lug to lug x 25.5 without crown (33.2mm w/out lugs)
Crystal: 23.7mm x 19.9mm (CMT346-14)
NOTE: The Attorney and Brewster cases are really quite different. Not only are the lugs different, but the Attorney case is longer and takes a different crystal.
1941 – Galahad, yellow gold, 21 jewels, two narrow rings on lugs, engraved bezel
NOTE: To me, the Galahad looks like the Brewster with engraving, but the jewel count is also different. I have both models. In fact, I have all three--Attorney, Brewster, Galahad.
Galahad Dimensions:
Case: 36.7mm lug to lug x 25.5 without crown (33.2mm w/out lugs)
Crystal: 23.7mm x 20.4mm
1942 –Emperor - yellow gold, no jewel count stated in ad, plain bezel
NOTE: This Emperor is a bit of a mystery to me, as the rings on the bezel look more like the attorney rings in that they appear flattened out rather than rounded, but there appears to be three of them rather than only two like the Attorney. The absence of a jewel count in the only known ad also makes this one difficult to distinguish from the others.
1943 – Jefferson - yellow gold, 21 jewels, plain bezel, appears to have same case shape as the Attorney, but it is difficult to be sure from the ad. The jewel count may be the only distinguishing factor.
The ad is misleading by listing the two watches together and only showing one of them. The catalog ads --particularly Sears--do that a lot. Another good example of that phenomenon is the 1936 ad for the Commodore, which mentions the quite different Apollo as though it were the same watch, which it was not. I imagine this was a space saving measure to lump similarly styled watches together in one listing. Other, Bulova, ads reveal the whole picture. The two watches are not the same, as shown in the Bulova ads below.
1941 Attorney
1941 Brewster
Having said all that, I'm still not sure what to say about the subject watch. The 1948 date is very late. The Brewster is a totally different watch by 1945, perhaps even sooner.
The case serial number would help, as there may have been a movement swap.
El Tel mentions a 1945 Gedney, but I'm not seeing that in the ads.
The 'GEDNEY' is in the Watch database, but lacks support to confirm the ID.
http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1945-gedney-805
GS CMT352-43 24.2mm X 21.4mm - Bulova Gedney.
GS CMX324-2G 21.2mm X 18.8mm- Bulova Gedney.
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