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Are there any love for vintage Bulova on OF?
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Magnix
路Had this one for a few years but sold it 2 weeks ago 馃榾
Marinestar with a Valjoux 72-5 Flyback caliber
Marinestar with a Valjoux 72-5 Flyback caliber
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dougiedude
路路Carpe horologium!Just bought this from a friend, who recently found it in an estate sale. It has 'M1' on the caseback, making it a 1961 production.
I put the Geiger counter on it, and it was quite active for a dress watch... that makes it the latest production watch I've seen with radium...
I snapped some iPhone pics this morning in the sunshine:
... and the seller's pic in the box:
My friend, who knows Bulova much better than I do, says it's a variant of the 'Sea King'.
I put the Geiger counter on it, and it was quite active for a dress watch... that makes it the latest production watch I've seen with radium...
I snapped some iPhone pics this morning in the sunshine:
... and the seller's pic in the box:
My friend, who knows Bulova much better than I do, says it's a variant of the 'Sea King'.
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rkman11
路I've actually fallen hard for the Bulova flip watches of the 50s - just love the idea of a 1950s dude that carried around a pic of his sweetheart hidden in his watch. The manly locket!
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palkastu
路This isnt Bulova, but the more affordable little brother 馃榾
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ulackfocus
路My friend, who knows Bulova much better than I do, says it's a variant of the 'Sea King'.
If it had the whale silhouette, it would be a Sea King. 馃槈
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dougiedude
路路Carpe horologium!If it had the whale silhouette, it would be a Sea King. 馃槈
Saw this one listed as 36mm, so I bought it... but he was pretty far off, much to my chagrin, it鈥檚 only 33mm. To his credit though, he offered to return my money when I told him how far off he was!
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TexOmega
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STEELE
路The only Bulova in my collection and it hardly sees daylight .....
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bazderome
路May I join the Gemini Era Astronaut club?
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SpeedyPhill
路Of course it is... Jacoby Bender Champion as worn by Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard in this MA-9 training photo taken in 1963
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bazderome
路I like that bracelet, is that a jb champion?
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Professor
路@SpeedyPhill was too quick but yes a JB champion like the one used by the NASA astronauts, the on with corned lugs. I should put my 2018 wristlycalendar on it too!
Dues this band allow rapid size adjustment to let the wearer slip in on over the wrist cuff of a flight jacket?
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SpeedyPhill
路Indeed, look at this almost fully extended ( steel mesh just slides over the inner band ) JB Champion ( or earlier Komfir Forstner ? ) on the wrist of astronaut Virgil Grissom on launch day of Gemini III in March 1965...
Grissom wore a Bulova Accutron Astronaut tuning fork watch on his right wrist and an Omega Speedmaster chronograph on his left wrist.
Both timepieces on a JB Champion bracelet... as allowed by NASA
More images in our March 2018 contribution at MoonwatchUniverse https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive
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Grissom wore a Bulova Accutron Astronaut tuning fork watch on his right wrist and an Omega Speedmaster chronograph on his left wrist.
Both timepieces on a JB Champion bracelet... as allowed by NASA
More images in our March 2018 contribution at MoonwatchUniverse https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive
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