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    Default Help with identifying this ladies Bulova

    Movement Model: 5AB
    Movement Jewels:17
    Case Serial No.: 215152
    Case shape:Square
    Crystal Details:1 cm lenght, 1 cm width
    Hi:
    Hope someone in this forum can help me identify a model name and manufacture date for a ladies Bulova that my Dad had given to my Mom early in their marraige.I've attached a pic of its front and back. I had it serviced locally. Is keeping perfect time. I have been checking its time for the last ten days. At each time check I rewind the watch and then set it aside for the next days check. Yesterday I had a jeweler open the back to see if we could locate any of the symbols used by Bulova between 1924 and 1948 to designate movement date. He located a "T" symbol near the stem set screw. Also 5AB" was found imprinted on a small rectangle.
    The watch face has 3 diamonds on top and three diamonds below .
    The back of the watch, at the upper top says BULOVA, below that it says 14 K. One the very bottom is a the serial number : 215152
    It is marked on the movement 17 jewels. He aslo found near the fast/slow adjustment a square symol with a slash through it , an X , and a W. He said it represented 0XW.
    Since the Bulova symbol list for 1924 - 1948 use a "T" to represent both years 1932 and 1942, he was inclined to think the model year was 1932 because of the appearance of the watches face. I'm stll not certain what year this watch was manufactured and what its name is? Any help identifying this watch is greatly appreciated.
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    Default Re: Help with identifying this ladies Bulova

    In a recent thread about a lady's Bulova watch, it was mentioned that information may be available at mybulova.com. My guess is that this watch is most likely from the 1942 date. Styles of Bulova watches in the early 1930s are quite different to the one in the images. As to identifying a particular model name? Bulova didn'always name each and every model they produced. One name they used for a series of lady's watches was "Goddess of Time". All watches in that series would have been thusly named. I believe the Goddess name came along well after the early 1940s.

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