Looks quite a bit like the Ranger of these years, but etched down either side of the bezel. This watch's movement is double stamped with the Arrow and then handstamped with the Crescent Moon. So we're looking at 1937-1938.
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Plaines
It looks like a 1931 Lone Eagle case w/o chevrons on horizontal bezel. Dial & hands are LE. Looze the movement & acquire an appropriate 17 jewel movement.
You can lead a collector to water, but you can't make'em think!
Plains
Check the addition of the two Lone Eagle III watches above. The case without the chevrons is penalized to NO NAME. What a shame. Let's keep it in the stone age until you find an ad.
I agree this should remain an 'Unknown' until such time we have something tangable. The LE III whilst similar was, from what we can tell, only ever released with the top and bottom chevrons.
I think it should at least be discussed! The case sare the same measurements! Engraved Ranger wanane? Ranger?
A Watch in this configuration is shown as part Bulova's Westfield line named the 'HUDSON'.
Although not a Westie it's a start and shows the Watch did exist, not a 'LONE EAGLE' nor the 'RANGER', the glass differs.
ad Dated 1940
Since we're throwing out "theories" I throw this one into the mix......
Since these watches were all hand assembled, is it possible that one of the "assemblers" did a "mix and match" for themselves or as a gift or out of boredom? Based on my research, the Westies and standard Bullys were coming out of the same place during this time frame.
If this possibility exists, then we need a new descriptive category or terminology other than "Frakenbully"...
I suggest, "Westbully" or "Bulowest" ???
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The subject is a Bulova with Bulova signed movement and Dial. Although the Westfield version is identical and named 'HUDSON' Westfield movements were signed as such and the Dial is clealy signed Westfield in the ad.
it's anyones guess at this time what the Bulova signed version was called.
My comment on the theories was in response to the LE produced without the bezel "chevrons" by the lugs.
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In reply to hmm, this one is a problem by mybulova_admin
Mayhaps it's the engraving that I can't see that is a praleem!
A what? Sorry Wayne, don't get it?
If it looks like a hudson and ticks like a hudson it probably is a hudson. My vote is hudson with out the westfield signature.
jp
Looks a lot like a 36 Ranger. Even the dial is the same except for the seconds register which is slightly curved on the verticles. I have a 36 Ranger with the 10AE but 15 jewels not 7. Is the case hinged? Mine is.
JP
subject looks like snap back, no hinge
duplicate record here: http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1938-unknown-3253
This record has better camera angle pics then duplicate above. Perhaps useful comments in the other record can be pasted in this record, since it's the same watch. Then the other record can be deleted.
I'm good with tentative Alexander ID.