1957 Bulova Beau Brummell ( I believe it's the "I" variant although it states white gold not yellow. I cannot however find anything anywhere specifying yellow or any other variant of this design other than the "I" ). Movement is a USA 10BP 21 jewel. Kriesler band is period correct but not original. I believe these to be a 2 yr production. 1956 and 1957. I have seen several in White and all were '56. I have seen only two in yellow, mine, and the one currently listed in the database that states it is yellow, but sure looks white to my eye. Both of these are coincidentally '57. So perhaps a guess would say the '56 production was in white and the '57 production was in yellow?? I dont know. I just know it is a dial design not seen very often.
Beautiful watch. I think the Beau Brummell is a good match but the I variant says Black Dial. I did not find a match that confirms the two tone markers but am good with the Beau Brummell no variant ID.
In reply to Beautiful watch. I think… by JimDon5822
I think the "black dial" is pretty well accepted as a misprint per discussion in other listings, and it shown under an example having a white dial and in discussions many have stated they have never seen a black version of this dial.
There weren't very many black dial Beau Brummell watches. My concern is not the dial color called out in the line book but the case color. I can accept this watch as a Beau Brummell but not the "I" variant. 1957 Beau Brummell, it's a great looking watch Chris!
So that raises the question, if they listed the dial color wrong could they have also listed the case color wrong as well.
I noticed that a good number of BBs have a white and yellow version with the variant letter being x (white ) and x+1 (yellow). Last night I was going to suggest the "J" variant as the yellow, until I saw the actualy "J" variant, which is totally different yet again to the "I" variant.
I'm tempted to say thre linebook is just in error, but until we can confirm, I agree it must be tagged as a base BB for now.
Sweet looking watch.
I made a comment in the description that the '57 that is already in the database looked to my eye to be White not the stated Yellow, but as i look at the photos of my watch that i uploaded, there are portions of mine that appear white as well, so apparently there is a lighting condition or angle that fools the eyes. So the existing BB is likely also Yellow. Which is a bummer, was hoping for a Unicorn.
Beautiful watch; I have never seen this combination of attributes before. I went through linebooks and came up empty - comparing photo descriptions with inventory (model number lists) wondering if perhaps photo was omitted, but the model numbers that are 1-3 digits off are completely different.
The BB "I" examples so far ID'ed are white case with all dial markers being white. I suspect the previous ID'ed example called out as yellow is actually white, as it shows all white dial markers and an obvious white colored band. Yours is yellow with alternating white and yellow markers. I have no doubt it is all original and a Beau. Variant letter is an unknown. I suspect production was very short lived and he never made it into linebooks or ads.
My opinion, FWIW - Unicorn and I'm jealous :o)
1957 Beau Brummell (variant unknown)
In reply to Beautiful watch; I have… by neetstuf-4-u
Yeah, i have starred at the previously identified "I" and it just seems like its white not yellow, although sometimes I be able to convince myself that its yellow and it's just the lighting that causes the yellow tone to bleed out, but then I think well it wouldn't be the entire watch, as surface angles change the lighting would reflect different and then I go back to it just being white. I really want to be able to give the owner the benefit of the doubt in being able to tell the diffrence between yellow and white, but mis-clicks and typos do happen I guess.
Adding a link to the referenced Beau Brummell "I" variant.