Bulova 1960 President

Submitted by bjohn123 on
JW
Manufacture Year
1960
Movement Jewels
23
Case Serial No.
E751972
Case shape
Round
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

10K white gold filled case that is about 32.8 mm across without lugs and crown.  Fairly thin at 8.5mm total thickness.  I was having trouble capturing the white case color with my background so placed a gold color band in a couple of pics for contrast.  I've seen this case in gold color, but have not seen a white one before.  Wonderful X-shaped lug arms with knurled ends. Beautiful black dial with a cool faceted textured pattern bursting out from the center in pie shaped wedges.  Silver numbers at the 4 compass points and matching linear indices at all other positions.  This one is a front loader and I did not want to take it apart, so didn't get a movement pic.  Mechanism winds smoothly and keeps good time.  I believe this is probably a sibling to the gold color president FW as seen in the lower portion of the attached 1960 add, although the dial is different also so maybe not.  

Thanks for looking and for any information.

02 Front Color Contrast 03.17.2026
03 Side Color Contrast 03.17.2026
04 Caseback 03.17.2026
1960 Advert image
neetstuf-4-u
Posted March 17, 2026 - 10:32pm

VERY nice! Yes it is a brother to the FW.

1960 President "JW"

Prez JW

A first for the database, nice to finally see one in the metal!

JimDon5822
Posted March 17, 2026 - 10:57pm

Great looking watch.  Love the black dial version.

1960 Bulova President "JW"

Geoff Baker
Posted March 18, 2026 - 6:21am

I agree - the black dial really pops on this one. 1960 Bulova President JW.