Hi Lyndi4g and welcome to myBulova! What a gorgeous watch! Is it possible to get a couple of additional photos of the watch so we can confirm the date. If you have a photo of the back of the case, movement, and inside of the case back, those are all helpful. You can message or email them to me or the admin and we can add them to the post or you can add them in the comments. Thanks!
Wow - what a wonderful watch! My first impression is that it's early 1960's. Bulova was making several lines of diamond studded watches during that time and I think this might be one of them. I've searched all of our 60's adverts but didn't find a match, I'll keep looking.
Is it possible to get a jeweler to open the back and get us all the markings (especially the date code) from both the movement and the case?
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In reply to Hi Lyndi, ideally we would by Reverend Rob
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In reply to Reverend Rob I added a photo by Kathy L.
I searched and didn't find a match for your watch. Bulova made platinum watches from the beginning and I found several ads in the 40's but not one that looked like your watch. I found them priced as low as $82 and as high as $1000. So it varied greatly depending on the diamonds and band. Here is an ad from 1948 for a watch that is similar to show you how it might have been advertised. Interesting all the ads I found did not have names.
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