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	As with all Bubblebacks, serial dating identifies case production rather than final assembly or retail delivery. Wartime logistics and dealer stock holding mean a 1944-cased example may have been sold in 1947.		As with all Bubblebacks, serial dating identifies case production rather than final assembly or retail delivery. Wartime logistics and dealer stock holding mean a 1944-cased example may have been sold in 1947.

			No production total for the 3065 has been published, and no formal census of surviving examples has been attempted. On the documented population the 3065 is scarcer than the working 2940 and sits roughly level with the 3372; anything more precise than that is inference.

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	The 3065 took the 2940's two-piece Oyster case and rebuilt the lug structure. Rather than the conventional split-lug with an exposed spring-bar channel, the case flanks were extended forward and joined at the top, forming a rigid hood that enclosed the spring-bar area on both sides. The bracelet endlink fits under the hood rather than between the lugs. On the wrist the transition from case to bracelet reads as continuous rather than articulated, a design vocabulary closer to the later Datejust than to the working Bubblebacks it shared a movement with.		The 3065 took the 2940's two-piece Oyster case and rebuilt the lug structure. Rather than the conventional split-lug with an exposed spring-bar channel, the case flanks were extended forward and joined at the top, forming a rigid hood that enclosed the spring-bar area on both sides. The bracelet endlink fits under the hood rather than between the lugs. On the wrist the transition from case to bracelet reads as continuous rather than articulated, a design vocabulary closer to the later Datejust than to the working Bubblebacks it shared a movement with.

	Production ran from about 1937 into 1950, with the weight of documented examples clustering between 1940 and 1946. ~~SwissWatchExpo places one~~ example in 1937; Sotheby's 2020 catalogued a late survivor dated to around 1950; a 513xx serial in the documented population corresponds to 1946. The 1937 outlier likely represents the earliest hooded-lug experimentation, and the 1950 examples likely reflect the tail of active production into dealer stock. Core output is concentrated in the wartime and immediate post-war years.		Production ran from about 1937 into 1950, with the weight of documented examples clustering between 1940 and 1946. A single documented example dates to 1937; Sotheby's 2020 catalogued a late survivor dated to around 1950; a 513xx serial in the documented population corresponds to 1946. The 1937 outlier likely represents the earliest hooded-lug experimentation, and the 1950 examples likely reflect the tail of active production into dealer stock. Core output is concentrated in the wartime and immediate post-war years.

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	Full-steel 3065/0 examples require extra scrutiny. Period production of full-steel hooded-lug Bubblebacks appears to have existed, but the population is small enough that forums routinely debate whether specific examples are authentic factory full-steel or stripped two-tones with the gold hoods replaced by steel service parts. Hallmark evidence, dial-text consistency, and period provenance become unusually important on a prospective 3065/0.		Full-steel 3065/0 examples require extra scrutiny. Period production of full-steel hooded-lug Bubblebacks appears to have existed, but the population is small enough that forums routinely debate whether specific examples are authentic factory full-steel or stripped two-tones with the gold hoods replaced by steel service parts. Hallmark evidence, dial-text consistency, and period provenance become unusually important on a prospective 3065/0.


			== Related references ==

			* [[Reference:2764\|Bubbleback 2764]] — 1937–1948
			* [[Reference:2940\|Bubbleback 2940]] — 1940–1949
			* [[Reference:3131\|Bubbleback 3131]] — 1936–1948
			* [[Reference:3595\|Bubbleback 3595]] — 1941–1949
			* [[Reference:3458\|Bubbleback 3458]] — 1934–1948
			* [[Reference:4467\|Bubbleback 4467]] — 1945–1949

			See also the [[Reference:bubbleback\|Bubbleback family index]], [[Reference:Movements\|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets\|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers\|serial numbers by year]].

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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