Bulova 1929 Miss Liberty

Submitted by Bob Bruno on January 30, 2013 - 4:19pm
Manufacture Year
1929
Movement Model
6AF
Movement Date Code
Omega
Movement Jewels
15
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
9498226
Case shape
Tonneau
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Ladies
Watch Description

Miss Liberty with 6 synthetic sapphires. Top middle stone looks to be a replacement. Nice filigree bracelet. Movement has the omega symbol for 1930 but case s/n starts with 9 so I'm thinking the movement might have been swapped. Would like to hear your thoughts on that.

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GVP
Posted September 25, 2013 - 7:09am

Seems to be a far scarcer model than the Miss Liberty, lack of adverts also seems to back this up. Note, lugs are a lot smaller too and the centre stone seems a little offset compared to the miss liberty

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted September 25, 2013 - 7:22am

Scanned the ads, nothing.

1930 'UNKNOWN'

mybulova_admin
Posted September 25, 2013 - 7:40am

1929 case with a 30 movement?

Could we be seeing a variation model for the Miss Liberty 29/30. Its possible Bulova didn't update the adverts. It wouldn't be the first time.

The outer case design is very simialr to the Miss America as indicated, but I too cannot find a match.

Bob Bruno
Posted September 26, 2013 - 11:30am

For comparison purposes

 

 

 

Reverend Rob
Posted October 9, 2013 - 2:47pm

Interesting. I just noticed the chapter ring doesn't match the crystal opening. We could be seeing the wrong dial, and possibly by extension, a different movt than that which was originally in the watch? 

mybulova_admin
Posted October 9, 2013 - 4:51pm

I've moved the emerald version back to Unknown also until we figure this out. 

Bob Bruno
Posted October 11, 2013 - 12:47pm

Case shape of this ad appears to be more like my watch, but I can't tell if the stone pattern is the same. The name is unreadable but definitely not Miss Liberty. Looks like it starts with an H to me.