I would like to know a little more about this watch. According to the case it is a 1957(L7) 18k gold ladies watch. It has a 23 jewel movement according to the face. as well as the movement. I am not sure what model this watch may be. I have not been able to in my cursory research found many 18k gold, let alone 23 jewel movement watches, for ladies in that year. It runs beautifully, and I would love to know more about it and where it may have come from.
Thanks for any insight into this lovely piece.
I can't quite make out the details of the watch, but It may be the white gold version of the "First Lady" show in this here. The yellow gold version show in the advert has the variant "I" designator.
Advert lists watch as 18K gold and 23 Jewels.
The white gold version is the "L" variant
Does the case look to be the same as yours?
Hi mstar911, welcome to mybulova. A real beauty, for sure.
Man, First Lady L is close, but with the better photo, it appears the little center triangles on the lugs are "points to the face" in ad as opposed to "points to the band" on subject watch.
It may well be a First Lady variant, but I don't think it's an "L".
Still unknown for me and still looking.
Well looking at them in this ad I think the case shape is more like the "I" like Stephen suggested. I am thinking it is a First Lady. The lugs are a bit more angular than the photo shows but I found a couple of these on ebay and on some of the photos it looked more like the drawing in this ad. I'm going to go with 1957 Bulova First Lady "I"
This certainly is a wonderful little watch. We don't see many Bulova in 18K. I'm a bit confused on the "I" / "L" question. The price list referenced above shows "L" as the white gold version. As this watch appears to be white, I'm more in line with that variant. Kathy, I see the advert you posted showing the "I" as being available in white or yellow but I think I'm going to defer to the price list this time.
1957 Bulova First lady L
Here is a close-up snippet from 1957 ad Stephen referenced for "I" yellow / "L" white.
I think the lugs are different. Based on the fact it's 18K , 23J and very similar:
1957 First Lady - unknown variant (for now)
The other option is to say that by process of elimination it must be an "L" and ad is visually incorrect artistic license
Here is an ad from 1958 with no variant in yellow. I suspect that the descriptions are possibly not fully correct as the watch ID'ed as MW (#16) is extremely close to subject watch, while #17 has a confirmed 18K in the Db
#17 has Different dial than subject watch but lugs are closer in configuration. It's all quite confusing.
In reply to Here is an ad from 1958 with by neetstuf-4-u