Stolen watch identification

Submitted by mindgrowz on April 6, 2023 - 7:50pm

In 1970 my high school faculty gave me a Bulova watch as top male student.  A few years late it was stolen from a college gym locker.  If I have Case #, box,  and date code, can the model be determined.  I do not recall what it looked like, as it has been 50 years since I have seen it.  I cannot add this watch to the website as I have no pictures of the watch, or the watch itself.

mindgrowz
Posted April 6, 2023 - 8:06pm

More information:

The date code is M7

Case # is F154012

Hexagonal white case with Excellence Collection by Bulova surrounding a B on the top.

neetstuf-4-u
Posted April 6, 2023 - 8:58pm

Your best bet is to pour over the ads on-site, as well as searching the watch database. Start by looking at full ads from 1966 to 1969 and all the short ads for the 1960 decade. and see if anything triggers your memory.

mindgrowz
Posted November 21, 2023 - 2:14am

In reply to by neetstuf-4-u

You have the watch. The 1967 Date King, autowinding.  Is it for sale?

Geoff Baker
Posted April 6, 2023 - 9:00pm

Most likely no, we cannot. The serial (you call case) number doesn't identify a particular model. The presentation box you have was widely used in the 1960 and early 70's. You could peruse our data base by year in the mid to late 1960's (your date code indicates 1967), to see if anything looks familiar.

mybulova_admin
Posted April 6, 2023 - 10:25pm

As both Neet and Geoff have said I think your best bet is to search through the adverts of this period. You might be in luck with an hexagonal case, as there aren't too many of those. I'll take a look through our 1967 Bulova linebooks for any matching case shapes.

Best of luck with your search.

mindgrowz
Posted April 12, 2023 - 2:02pm

In reply to by mybulova_admin

Thanks for assisting me!  There is a picture of a Date King in the Hexagonal Box on the site.

mybulova_admin
Posted April 12, 2023 - 5:51pm

In reply to by mindgrowz

Ah when you said hexgonal, you were talking about the box and not the actual shape of the watch. That would make sense.

Disregard my earlier comments about the Senator model.

mybulova_admin
Posted April 9, 2023 - 6:12am

How did you go? Any luck finding a possible match?

mindgrowz
Posted April 12, 2023 - 2:04pm

In reply to by mybulova_admin

Pretty sure now that it was a Date King.  But not sure if the Date King was self-winding.  Mine had the luminous dots and was self-winding.  Thanks for assisting me!