My youngest son is getting ready to graduate from high school and I am thinking that a watch would be a good gift, he really likes my Astronaut I just picked up but I am not giving him that. I had been leaning towards a Seiko but I know that Bulova did an Astronaut re-issue awhile back and was wondering what the opinions are about modern Bulovas.
They're a division of Citizen now and they seem to be bringing out a lot of nice stuff... I wouldn't buy one as an investment, but as a nice quality watch which should survive the gentle treatment of a high school aged male they'd likely be a good buy. I saw a nice Accutron II diver lately, it was a really nice piece and not too expensive to boot. A good tool watch.
I think that the Bulova moon watch is pretty nice. They can be found for far less than what is on the Bulova site. https://www.bulova.com/products/96b251 Do you think he could handle an automatic watch? Then I'd be looking at a Seiko SKX007 or a Turtle. In quartz there are a ton of decent options - I'm somewhat partial to the solar powered radio synced watches myself - best deals on those are usually the Citizen chronographs.
Pretty sure the 262hz movements are of reasonable quality, but they eat batteries since they don't step the seconds hand. Here's a thread on WUS where someone cracked theirs open. The new Bulova Curv watches have even prettier movements: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f705/precisionist-moon-watch-concerns-4293554.html