Vintage Bulova 23 Jewels
 Today I'm wearing this vintage Bulova.  It's yet another of my vast accumulation of fairly common vintage watches, and like many of them I got this one from my father.  It keeps good time, although it will occasionally stop, but not often.  Probably just needs a cleaning.  It's from 1963 (the "M3" on the caseback indicates M for 1960s plus 3 for 1963.  N is 1970s, L 1950s, etc.) and has a pretty typical look for that era.  It's all stainless with bright hour markers and a ring around the hour track, with a very faint linen pattern on the dial.  The acrylic crystal is in decent shape, as is the expanding bracelet.  I don't normally like this kind of bracelet, but this on is only half expanding, and half fixed, so I think I like it a little better.  I haven't opened this one, but I believe the 23 jewel movement is Bulova's in-house one, which means it was made in the U.S.A.  The rest of the watch would have been made here too, and assembled here.  I think by the early 1960s even Hamiltons were mostly Swiss, so it's kind of nice to have a later all-American watch.
Today I'm wearing this vintage Bulova.  It's yet another of my vast accumulation of fairly common vintage watches, and like many of them I got this one from my father.  It keeps good time, although it will occasionally stop, but not often.  Probably just needs a cleaning.  It's from 1963 (the "M3" on the caseback indicates M for 1960s plus 3 for 1963.  N is 1970s, L 1950s, etc.) and has a pretty typical look for that era.  It's all stainless with bright hour markers and a ring around the hour track, with a very faint linen pattern on the dial.  The acrylic crystal is in decent shape, as is the expanding bracelet.  I don't normally like this kind of bracelet, but this on is only half expanding, and half fixed, so I think I like it a little better.  I haven't opened this one, but I believe the 23 jewel movement is Bulova's in-house one, which means it was made in the U.S.A.  The rest of the watch would have been made here too, and assembled here.  I think by the early 1960s even Hamiltons were mostly Swiss, so it's kind of nice to have a later all-American watch.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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