Bulova 1940 Nightingale

Submitted by wimberleytech on May 26, 2023 - 10:58am
Manufacture Year
1940
Movement Model
7AM
Movement Date Code
Asterisk
Movement Jewels
17
Case Serial No.
0009332
Case shape
Round
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Crystal details
Acrylic
Gender
Ladies
Watch Description

7AM movement in 10K RGP case.

Front
front cased
movement
case back outside
case back inside
front with sweep second
neetstuf-4-u
Posted May 27, 2023 - 12:36pm

Can you post an additional photo of the watch assembled?

wimberleytech
Posted May 27, 2023 - 1:22pm

Had some difficulty with the website but I got an assembled view uploaded.

1955mercury
Posted May 27, 2023 - 4:48pm

Bulova Nightingale

neetstuf-4-u
Posted May 27, 2023 - 5:17pm

This is a bit of a mystery. Case does look to be a match to Nightingale. Nightingale has a center sweep second hand. It doesn't look like subject watch ever had one? Dial has a notch at "6" position, indicating the dial was refinished. Linked watch has an ad from 1942 with matching fully numbered dial. I will agree with the ID noting above discrepancies.

By case s/n starting with a "0"

1940 Nightingale

wimberleytech
Posted May 27, 2023 - 5:36pm

In reply to by neetstuf-4-u

Interesting about the notch at 6.  Having had a couple of dials refinished, I have not been apprised of such a marking.  I will take another look re sweep second.

I have no clue as to the history of this watch. It was in among a bunch of other movements/watches/parts that I bought from an NAWCC member who got it from the widow of a watchmaker. 

1955mercury
Posted May 27, 2023 - 6:51pm

In reply to by neetstuf-4-u

The case back is a mystery too. It has a serial number starting with "0" which would match the movement date symbol of "*" for 1940, but it is also stamped "49". And it was stamped very hard. Don't know if I've ever seen one stamped so hard it shows up inside the case back. 

wimberleytech
Posted May 27, 2023 - 5:39pm

Aha!!  The second had is simply missing!!

wimberleytech
Posted May 27, 2023 - 5:43pm

found on the web.  Now I need to locate that second hand!

wimberleytech
Posted May 28, 2023 - 9:57am

In reply to by wimberleytech

I have a couple of cabinets of Bulova parts.  Found a sweep second for a 10BCC.  It looks close.  Had to broach the hole a bit--a process more delicate than adjusting a hairspring!!  Picture posted.