A-11
Manufacture Year
1943
Movement Model
10AKCSH
Movement Date Code
X
Movement Jewels
16
Movement Serial No.
None
Case Serial No.
-
Case shape
Round
Case color
White
Gender
Mens
Watch Description
The Type A-11 was not so much a specific watch model but a production standard used by a number of watch companies (Elgin, Bulova and Waltham), with numerous case and minor dial/hands variations (there were even silver-cased watches, as nickel was considered a metal more critical for the war effort!), though some design aspects were largely universal: Black dial; white hands; a hand-wound hacking movement with center second hand, hour numbers from 1 to 12; a second scale with smaller minute/second numbers in increments of 10 on the outside edge of the dial; and same-type minute and hour hands.
This Bulova version of the A-11: this was the watch that was issued by the British as the Mark VIII, with an A. Schild SA Cal. 1238 movement (10.5'''), which while basically a Swiss movement was actually built in the US by Bulova as the cal. 10AKCSH, which also resulted in the lack of "Swiss Made" on the dial. The name can be parsed so: cal. 10AK, CS = center sweep, H=hack.
Part of this Description was extracted from "Watches That Helped Win The War" article by Ken & Crusader Edited 9/11/2011
bobbee
Posted November 28, 2012 - 2:04am
JP
Posted November 28, 2012 - 2:13am
William Smith
Posted January 22, 2015 - 6:02pm
I had read that military issue watches post 1940 were stamped on the back as such. This one is 1943, and looks like a "Military non-issue". One tick as published, but it's really splitting hairs, and the difference may simply be a serial number range for production and the presence or absence of a stamp on the back.
William Smith
Posted July 5, 2015 - 8:16pm