Bulova 1922 -Unknown

Submitted by Jim Townsend on May 26, 2014 - 5:34am
Manufacture Year
1922
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
122243
Case Serial No.
105661
Case shape
Round
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
American Standard
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

Bulova pocket watch has no movement  stamped on it Movement says Bulova W. Co. 5 adjustments 17 Jewels  has movement no. 122243  fresh from service and running like a bandit. Cae is American standard 14 kt gold filled. case no. is 105661.

Jim Townsend 1922 Bulova 12 14 14
1922 Bulova watch
Reverend Rob
Posted May 26, 2014 - 12:17pm

They may have a name for this, or it might be some other thing as mundane as a size reference. I suspect there was a grey area between the early days and where they started naming everything. The Lord Springfield also uses this movt. Both these named watches at least some of the time, have the name on the dial. Does it look to you as if someone has tried to clean the "Bulova" logo? It looks like it has rub marks around it. 

Jim Townsend
Posted May 26, 2014 - 12:29pm

Not sure on the dial cleaning.I will ask Tom my watch guy.

Reverend Rob
Posted May 26, 2014 - 1:02pm

Something else to consider with these old watches. 

The dials are all completely interchangable, so  a Lord Springfield can become a Hudson Maxim, and these could become a generic 'Bulova'. 

JP
Posted May 27, 2014 - 8:57am

Don't know a name but it is sure a beauty Jim.

John

Mindless
Posted May 27, 2014 - 12:40pm

Nice watch. For taking pictures? Don't give up. Try a tripod. It made a world of difference for me. Plus you can use the timer setting leaving your hands free if needed to manipulate whatever you're taking a picture of to the best angle. You can also hold a loupe against the lense instead of using the zoom feature if you don't happen to have a high dollar camera with seperate lenses.  If you use the same camera for everything the way I do you also have to remember to change your settings back to whatever macro/closeup there is.  Most of the time you have to turn off the flash as well.  Then just take LOTS of pictures and delete the ones that don't come out.  I haven't built a picture box yet but I've learned that when possible, I don't put anything away until I've looked at the pics on computer to make sure I have what I want/need.

Jim Townsend
Posted May 27, 2014 - 4:49pm

In reply to by Mindless

Taking pictures isnt the problem getting the right size to upload here is. Can only be 150 pixels once in a great while i will get lucky. Camera is a Nikon decent camera.

William Smith
Posted June 8, 2014 - 7:19pm

In reply to by Jim Townsend

Jim...it's actually KB size limit of 150.  The pixels can be up to 480 X 640.  See below:
Maximum file size: 150 KB

Allowed extensions: jpg

Images larger than 640x480 pixels will be scaled

bobbee
Posted May 31, 2014 - 6:30am

Nice watch Jim.

Probably a Hudson Maxim, agree with date.

 

William Smith
Posted June 1, 2014 - 2:05pm

Jim  The mvnt SN ....is it below and left of the balance wheel (on the plate below balance)?  Rev Rob, Fifth, and Bobbee (among others) are "up on" Hudson's w/o the "Hudson Maxim" on the dial.  

I'm gonna re-read some notes before making an educated guess on model for this one.