Now this is an interesting case. I recently purchased this NO stamped Bulova from the EU. It's on the way to me now, and these are the sellers pics. I'd say this case is transitional as it's probably the latest "gold filled" men's case I've seen? It was mostly electroless micro gold bezels only etc. Looks like a crystal opener, and I'm terrible at those so I'll have to have a watchmaker give us a clue what the movement is. Really cool black dial and blue hands and markers. I do not believe I've seen this watch before. The 🐋 on the dial puts it maybe some sort of Clipper?
May still be the SK "FR" in 70, have to verify that. We have a couple 67's in the database.
In reply to May still be the SK "FR" in… by Andersok
I agree, this is definitely a Sea King and more than likely the "FR" variant missing the faceted crystal. Take note of the overly wide space between the second/minutes track and the crystal opening (to accommodate the facets).
Pending verification that the model variant designation didn't change between 1967 and 1970 I'm in for
1970 Sea King "FR"
Nice looking watch!
I am on the 1970 Bulova Sea King "FR" as being the most likely candidate. While the dial is not an exact match to the white dial I would not be surprised if the black dial was slightly different for style purposes. Missing the faceted crystal. Found in the 1970 line book BAWD0175 pg 29
Assuming the faceted crsytal is hiding the distinctive minute track, I would tend to agree with it being the Sea King "FR". Although the other example does clearly show the track with the faceted crystal, so perhaps with the white dial version and linebook it makes it hard to see.
