Bulova 1931 Nurse

Submitted by mybulova_admin on April 21, 2018 - 3:11am
Manufacture Year
1931
Movement Model
10AN
Movement Date Code
Omega
Movement Jewels
15
Movement Serial No.
604609
Case Serial No.
1196469
Case shape
Cushion
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

Just serviced and bought back to life. Have left the original paint on the dial and hands as it's in pretty good condition. Watch is running within a minute accuracy over a day.

Not sure if these were intended for either military or medical. It's actually a very small watch compared to other men's models of the same period. Case is about 26mm wide.

We have a few similar early center sweep hands watches in the database:

Case in marked 'BULOVA QUALITY'.

I also like the serial numbers 1196469 (case) and 604609 (movement).

1931 Bulova watch
1931 Bulova watch
1931 Bulova watch
1931 Bulova watch
mybulova_admin
Posted April 28, 2018 - 9:44pm

In reply to by Alex

Sorry, yep the adverts I found were all from 1931.

I tend to agree that it's more of a category, but the advert does state nurse's model, and for the sake of categorising these for now I think a general model name will suffice until such time we can confirm or not.

neetstuf-4-u
Posted April 28, 2018 - 6:43am

Nurse works for me unless another ad appears that narrows it down further with a variant or sub-name.

Geoff Baker
Posted May 1, 2018 - 7:45am

I always vote for the Nurse ( I am sort of married to one).

Kathy L.
Posted November 18, 2018 - 11:04pm

Came across this 1924 ad and it looks like the same watch as yours.  I have seen on a few earlier models that they used 15 and 16 jewel movements in the same model.  Don't know if that might be the case with this one.  Anyway just thought I would share.  

mybulova_admin
Posted December 22, 2022 - 8:17pm

In reply to by Kathy L.

We have two of these sterling silver examples in the database, both dated to 1924. These seem to be the first edition of the nurse watch. The later ones gained the outer detailed minute track and were gold filled as per the subject watch.