Reverend Rob
Posted March 5, 2013 - 1:14pm
My guess would be 1974 or thereabouts. Doc describes this as the 'last calibre family from Bulova'. I take that to mean after this there were no more new calibre series. I haven't found any detailed history regarding what movts or manufacturing procedures Bulova was using, other than they were purchased by Loew's in 1979. We came across unmarked movts in Caravelles while at school, and these resembled Russian and Chinese calibres, so at what point this started to happen in any of the main lines is unknown-however, if today's Bulova is any indicator, they may have kept the best movts for the main line, that is, the Bulova signed watches.
My impression is that this is an in house Bulova movt., and as Doc says, the last of its kind.