Recent purchase. Is it Douglas or Brigadier or frankenwatch. Watch is running but extreemly fast. The hairspring looks to be a likely culprit.
In reply to may be same watch like this… by jabs
I don't think it's a dial swap either and believe it's original as seen. This is based on the fact we now have 3 watches counting this one in the database with this face/case combination. The other 2 were tentatively identified as "Douglas, noting face swap possibility". Now the years 1946, 1947 and 1948 are represented.
Food for thought with no proof. The only ad for War Hawk we have is dated 1946 - post WWII. Nothing before or after that date. Perhaps Bulova introduced the War Hawk post war (not expecting the war to end when it did), and then made the decision to use up these dials by inserting them in a watch model with a non-war name to save money and never declared it as a variant..We may be seeing an unadvertised Douglas variant/mod, or perhaps these are something yet to be ID'ed.
I suspect this is a legit Douglas.
21 jewels would suggest a Douglas rather than a War Hawk.
This advert shows that there were multiple variants of the Douglas. So I'm ok with that for now.
The above advert dates top 1946 and the War Hawk advert as los dated to 1946.
I'm of the sme thinking, if it's not a variant then Bulova may have simply reused the dials from the War Hawk post war.