In reply to Hi, I'm the resident AA… by JEV1A
John, whilst I agree that the Bulova Academy Award series is one of Bulova's nicer series (IMO), as Geoff said, Bulova made a great many of them, not only in numbers but also in model variants, both in mens and ladies lines.
They are certainly up there as a model to have in your Bulova collection, I myself look forward to the day when I own one.
I would assume that the watch you refer to as being sold at a Sotherby's auction probably belonged to someone famous, which is why it fetched several thousand dollars. These days if you look around enough you should easily be able to find one in good condition for a few hundred dollars plus.
All in all Bulova Academy Award watches are a wonderful snapshot into what Bulova was doing in marketing terms in the early 1950s.