Hello, recently aquired this Bulova watch and was hopeful you could help identify the model for me as I cannot find any that match. I think I have dated it accuratley to 1970. Its a round stainless steel cased manual wind watch. Has a blue/grey face with battons at the numerals. Minutes and seconds marked in white, with a thin white cross 12 to 6 and 9 to 3. Possibly luminescent markers on the hours and hands and an orange second hand which also looks like it be luminescent. Marked Bulova below the 12 o'clock with T Swiss T below the 6 o'clock. The back of the case is marked Bulova Stainless Steel with the Number 3-221901 and N0. Inside the back of the cover is marked LL inside a symbol, above Swiss, above 971 in a rectangle. There are also scratched marks inside the cover 812/11/B?? and 884/10B????
Movement is marked Bulova Watch Co 17 Jewells, 11ANC in a rectangle, with N1 marked to the left and Swiss marked to the right. No day or date indicators on the face. Diameter, including case and winder is approx 3.7cms Hope the information is of help and look forward to any information you may have.
Kind regards - Tony
Very cool, I don't believe I have ever seen that dial before. I dug through our reference material for a while and come up empty. It appears by s/n (starting with "3 -" ) and case markings that this one was assembled outside the US for the international market. There is a good chance it was assembled in Asia using Swiss supplied parts. Our reference material is pretty limited for European and Asian assembled watches, so this one may be difficult to identify,
I'm currently at
1970 Unknown. Still looking.
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Sorry Tony, we don't. We've amassed a large collection of vintage Bulova adverts over the years. A couple years ago, Bulova Corp gave us access to their internal catalogs from the early 1960's up until the late 70's. A few, but only a few reference the Swiss (International) Division. Unfortunately we don't have the ability to have access to them on the web site as the files are too large.
