Calling this a 1947 Miss Excellency "RR".
The movement is a 1947 6AK. It has 21 jewels. The case is marked "Bulova New York". Its 14 K gold filled.
The serial number on the case starts with an "H" so I don't know what to make of that.
There are no Miss Excellencies in the database that I can find but this looks like the. ad to me. The ad is 1949.
It is definitely a Her Excellency. It is most likely the "G" variant like this one https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1948-her-excellency-10310 but there is not an ad showing the "G" with this dial to verify that so that would make it a generic HE like this one https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1948-her-excellency-11119. These are lovely models, congrats. Somewhere there is a discussion on the letter in the serial # of the ladies models in the 1940s indicates the year, A=1940, B=1941, C=1942, D=1943, E=1944, F=1945, G=1946, H=1947, I=1948, J=1949. This is just a theory but seems to hold true imo
1947 Bulova Her Excellency
In reply to It is definitely a Her… by Kathy L.
Yes, there’s a lot to recommend this. I didn’t go with it because I couldn’t find an ad with this case style that had Arabic numerals on the dial.
However, in your support a. The ad is rose gold and b. My watch has a bit of a cut out on the side that you can see in the second photo. The Miss Excellency ad doesn’t appear to have it. But with a little imagination I think I can see it in your Her Excellency ad.
So I think you may have the right of it.
In reply to Yes, there’s a lot to… by tshanno
This one shows the variants of this model by gold color https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1948-her-excellency-9282#comment-65053 and in this one it shows why I think the dial does not indicate the variant in the HE line https://www.mybulova.com/watches/1949-her-excellency-9333
I'll agree, it's a 1947 Her Excellency - variant pending.
I did research on the letter serial numbers in the ladies 1940's I think about a year ago, and posted a s/n matrix (in a PM to Panel) that I think was lost during the last site update. Unfortunately I didn't save it in my own database. (Search all, 1940-49, ladies, looked at case s/n's vs mvmt date codes) As I recall, letter first s/n's didn't appear for all models, but rather seemed to be model or line specific, like it was perhaps a trial run. The letter/year correlation was pretty clear, with movement date codes aligning with letter based s/n's showing a few exceptions that could be explained by movement swaps - imo.
