bulova conundrum

flutered

i have a us military issued bulova ww, on the case back for the year of manafacture reads the following, of 550727, all my searches tell me that bulova never used the letter o to tell the year of manafacture, the case back reads as follows
ord. dept
usa
of 550727
bulova watch company.
thanks in advance for your help.

Wibbs

Any chance of pics F? Of the dial and caseback maybe.

flutered

sorry wibbs for some reason they are only opening half way.

flutered

that took some doing, i should be going to town either tomorrow or wedensday, i will get the case back loosened and take a pic if you need it, thanks agin wibbs.

Wibbs

FWIW F it looks alright to me. The caseback markings look pretty "correct" and well defined. Here's an original one;



Looks damn close to me. Plus I don't think these are faked so often if at all. That all said my expertise on US WWW's is pretty low . For me I always look at the seller. If theyre in Poland or Ukraine avoid like the plague, though every so often in very rare cases even there can be OK, but it's really rare.

flutered

i got this from a friend in the us, whom i never met in the flesh, but unfortunatly sucummed to skin cancer, it was just a bit of junk when i recieved it last year, james daly a watch guy in limerick brought it back to life, is this one ww2 or is it earlier or later, thanks again wibbs.

Wibbs

TBH F I'm not that up to speed with these particular watches. It looks WW2 rather than later to me, but that's as much as I could say. Sorry

fishguy

Hi,

Looks pretty genuine to me too. I think it's a pre- or early WW2 piece. It would be nice to see the movement too .

I completely agree with Wibbs on the fake vs real issue. These are rarely ever faked. The only real issue can be if this it's a frankenwatch of some sort, but the dial and the hands looks very authentic to me.

I think the only real faked and super frankened US issued watches are the Vietnam era pieces, specially if they are higher quality pieces...

g.