Bought this ladies model some considerable number of years ago and as I have a better camera today, I attach some images. The watch back hinges and reveals a sealed tinted glass movement cover. I have never removed that. It keeps pretty decent time and my Wife wears it occasionally.
I've not tried to find out much about it, but maybe this is the time . . .
Looks like you have a damn fine printer :-)
1929 Bulova Roberta, all original too. Nice!
We also have a copy of the original magazine release for the dust proof cover that was mentioned ealier on the Infomation page here: http://www.mybulova.com/bulova_information
I'm not seeing a date code on movement, but wondering....
I may "manually" search for 5AP movements in our watch database, and cross reference years of production to movement serial numbers. Maybe we can make a "guess" at year of movement based on where the serial number falls in possible range of others for which we "think" we know year.
This is not a canned querry, so it takes some futtzing, but maybe could give a first cut at a date based on mvnt serial number. I suspect this movement is also 1928, but it would be nice to also base that guess on something else.
I do feel these mvent serial numbers were used contractually by Bulova for "runs" of movement production, and are not just randomly assigned. One "run" should have consecutive serial numbers, however that doesn't mean they were placed in cases consectuvily, or that all consecutive numbers were stamped/used. Maybe a batch of movements had some part mis-stamped, and those numbers/movements were simply not produced w/i that series. Maybe after they did a "run" the movements were doled out to different cases without regard to serial numbers.
These serial numbers were not just a random string....or we would see duplicates, at least w/i same movment model.
In reply to Hey bosartis, if you have two by Geoff Baker