Watch is yellow gold plate with a stainless back. White face with raised gold markers.and black printed seconds track and "Bulova" Case is the same as a Clipper and seems to post date that black lumed face model by a year.The last Clipper ads I find are dated 1945, while the newest one in the Db is 1944. Case s/n dating matches the movement and I don't find this face configuration in any other model, so it's highly unlikely this is a marriage of parts. Raised markers also suggest it's not a refinished Clipper black dial.. Clipper is a 17 jewel, this one is 15. Movement is double stamped with a triangle (1945) over the original circle for 1944.
Is this an unadvertised post war "civilian Clipper" or something else? I don't see another in the database.
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1945 Clipper ad.
There is currently one rose gold example (also with 17 J, like the Clipper) in the Db dated 1944, tentatively ID'ed as a Tildon based on crystal specs?
I bid on Ebay for one of these a few months ago and did not win. It might have been the same watch or another one. I do not believe this to be a Tilden as it was pointed out this is a Westfield model name. Certainly looks to be a Clipper variant but the jewel count is wrong so until something corroborates this it is an unknown.
In reply to I bid on Ebay for one of… by JimDon5822
In reply to Noting a notched dial,… by Geoff Baker
Good eye on the notch at 12, Geoff. I had to re-open the watch and look at it w/a magnifying glass....never saw it. I don't think it's a re-dial from black Clipper face, as the black face had painted (lume) markers and subject watch has raised gold. If anything I would suppose it was always a white dial and refinished. I may be wrong. If it is a replaced dial and movement, I can't find a possible donor watch in the database.