Hi thanks for the interest and I apologize for not posting lately as I am assigned the night shift and am still trying to get used to the upside down hours and sleep patterns. I have loads of watch treasure hunting updates to report and will get to them within the next few days...if I can manage to keep awake. 😁
Man, if we’re all invited to post our finds in here I should add this one.
You are 2nd in line on the Tudor, unfortunately but I will put you down. I was pleased to find it.
God that Tudor is pure snazz! I'll take 3rd in line and please keep in mind the other two are nowhere near as special as me 😁
Rest assured Fred; you are 3rd in line with a asterisk beside your name.
It is finally warm enough to have yard sales again here in the northeast of the U.S. in the state of Maine, to be exact. Last Saturday, at one of the first sales I hit, an older gent was running it and though there was very little out on the porch and I didn't see any watches, I asked if he might have any old watches. He replied he did and went back in the house to find them. A few minutes later he came back with a quart basket of watches. This was the only one that wasn't a cheap Walmart quartz. (I even checked all the bracelets, looking to see if one might have a useful deployant BoR or something else that didn't belong on it, but no such luck, all were the twist-o-flex types.) I gave this little 32mm Bulova a wind and it didn't run. I showed the fella that it wouldn't run and asked "How much for a broken watch.", using my best talk 'em down line that I know. He replied "Guess I can't ask too much.....how about a quarter." I agreed to the deal and after I declined to buy them all just a few dollars I headed down the driveway....wondering what I was going to do with another broken watch. I did think, well it is an automatic, I gave it a few shakes and to my amazement by the time I was climbing back into my truck it had started up. When we pulled into the next sale, I set the watch to the correct time, 12:22 and after cleaning the old man cheese off the case and polishing the crystal, I have worn it enough each day to keep it running the 8 days since. In that time I believe it has gained about 80 seconds. Good enough to be declared an accurate runner where I come from, especially not knowing it's service history. I don't usually care for watches with more than 3-6-9-12 numerals and much prefer stick or dagger indices and of course I wouldn't be against it having a 35mm case, but the Scotch/Irish blood in me has really taken to this all SS little champ. I really like that even the crown is SS and doesn't show base metal like so many other cheap yard sale finds do. Thanks for reading this long winded story of the hunt that produced a little treasure. I am just happy to add one more gem to the vintage watch on a budget collection.
McK
It is finally warm enough to have yard sales again here in the northeast of the U.S. in the state of Maine, to be exact. Last Saturday, at one of the first sales I hit, an older gent was running it and though there was very little out on the porch and I didn't see any watches, I asked if he might have any old watches. He replied he did and went back in the house to find them. A few minutes later he came back with a quart basket of watches. This was the only one that wasn't a cheap Walmart quartz. (I even checked all the bracelets, looking to see if one might have a useful deployant BoR or something else that didn't belong on it, but no such luck, all were the twist-o-flex types.) I gave this little 32mm Bulova a wind and it didn't run. I showed the fella that it wouldn't run and asked "How much for a broken watch.", using my best talk 'em down line that I know. He replied "Guess I can't ask too much.....how about a quarter." I agreed to the deal and after I declined to buy them all just a few dollars I headed down the driveway....wondering what I was going to do with another broken watch. I did think, well it is an automatic, I gave it a few shakes and to my amazement by the time I was climbing back into my truck it had started up. When we pulled into the next sale, I set the watch to the correct time, 12:22 and after cleaning the old man cheese off the case and polishing the crystal, I have worn it enough each day to keep it running the 8 days since. In that time I believe it has gained about 80 seconds. Good enough to be declared an accurate runner where I come from, especially not knowing it's service history. I don't usually care for watches with more than 3-6-9-12 numerals and much prefer stick or dagger indices and of course I wouldn't be against it having a 35mm case, but the Scotch/Irish blood in me has really taken to this all SS little champ. I really like that even the crown is SS and doesn't show base metal like so many other cheap yard sale finds do. Thanks for reading this long winded story of the hunt that produced a little treasure. I am just happy to add one more gem to the vintage watch on a budget collection.
McK
Very nice find. Photo of case back? Thanks
It is finally warm enough to have yard sales again here in the northeast of the U.S. in the state of Maine, to be exact. Last Saturday, at one of the first sales I hit, an older gent was running it and though there was very little out on the porch and I didn't see any watches, I asked if he might have any old watches. He replied he did and went back in the house to find them. A few minutes later he came back with a quart basket of watches. This was the only one that wasn't a cheap Walmart quartz. (I even checked all the bracelets, looking to see if one might have a useful deployant BoR or something else that didn't belong on it, but no such luck, all were the twist-o-flex types.) I gave this little 32mm Bulova a wind and it didn't run. I showed the fella that it wouldn't run and asked "How much for a broken watch.", using my best talk 'em down line that I know. He replied "Guess I can't ask too much.....how about a quarter." I agreed to the deal and after I declined to buy them all just a few dollars I headed down the driveway....wondering what I was going to do with another broken watch. I did think, well it is an automatic, I gave it a few shakes and to my amazement by the time I was climbing back into my truck it had started up. When we pulled into the next sale, I set the watch to the correct time, 12:22 and after cleaning the old man cheese off the case and polishing the crystal, I have worn it enough each day to keep it running the 8 days since. In that time I believe it has gained about 80 seconds. Good enough to be declared an accurate runner where I come from, especially not knowing it's service history. I don't usually care for watches with more than 3-6-9-12 numerals and much prefer stick or dagger indices and of course I wouldn't be against it having a 35mm case, but the Scotch/Irish blood in me has really taken to this all SS little champ. I really like that even the crown is SS and doesn't show base metal like so many other cheap yard sale finds do. Thanks for reading this long winded story of the hunt that produced a little treasure. I am just happy to add one more gem to the vintage watch on a budget collection.
McK
Happy to oblige:
And now that I have the name Sea King to go on, am I right that the G in front of the serial number means this watch is from 1962? If so, it is actually a birth year watch for me! I know a lot of you guys have birth year Rolex's or Speedies, but this would be my first birth year watch, Bulova and for a quarter or not. Kind of cool!
McK
M1 is the date code so it was made in 1961.
And, I thought the Sea King had a whale on the dial? Mine does and most I've seen also have that but I don't know when they started putting them on the dial.
