Geoff Baker
Posted March 20, 2018 - 7:19am
Great story FortyCaliber, I'm a big fan of heirloom watches (my father was a collector too) so anything your father wore is totally cool to me. The problem with a lot, but certainly not all expansion bands is that some of them are 'self adjusting' so they'll fit several lug spacing sizes. That type applies constant pressure to the inside lug surface and causes unnecessary wear. Regularly sized bands are generally not an issue, even with solid gold cases.
I'm not sure of the variant on your watch. I think it's a Bulova 23 model but I'm tentative on assigning a variant at this point.
1958 Bulova 23