Bulova Beau Brummell
In reply to No mention of Beau Brummell… by mybulova_admin
That's sort of an oddity. Beau Brummell's have always been a Bulova model with decorative stones on the dial and then the linebook shows another model with this feature in the 1950 linebook and doesn't show a Beau Brummel. The newspaper ad referenced in this post seems to have a date of 1950 with a Beau Brummel in it and Bulova sent these ad blocs out to their dealers with a space left blank for them to insert their store name and have them printed in their local newspaper. I know they came from Bulova because I have several that came from a former Bulova employee when he retired. I'm going to suggest that in this case it's possible that the linebook is a misprint.
The model # for both of these models is the same, 38723; as is the 71.50 price. This model number was in the 1950 pricelist as Beau Brummel (I don't know if we have more of this pricelist showing Cambridge also, but I do not see it at that price).
I don't think we can rule out this model as a Beau Brummell for 1950.
How was it determined that the second half of linebook 132 (first half is 1957) belongs to 1950?
In reply to The model # for both of… by Andersok
The 1950 determination came from me as I was finding we were able to ID watches from that linebook that were dated 1950 and 1951. Although my thinking is now that the original filename was 1953-57 (I think I previously stated 1950-57 which is wrong), and could have covered some of the 50/51 models that were possibly sold in 53 as well.
Someone at Bulova in January of 1953 was doing drugs as the Price guide on page 3 lists 38723 as a Cambridge, but then later in the exact same list for January 1953, goes on to list the 38723 as the Beau Brummell ($71.50) and the Cambridge as 38725 ($47.50)
It's worth noting that the page that lists this watch as a Cambridge (as per my previous linebook image), also shows 5 other correctly named models suggesting that it wasn't an error....BUT
I'm torn with this mystery. We would have to assume that the linebook is incorrect and both the price guide and newsprint are correct, unless in 1951 there was no such model as the Beau Brummell and that is was (at that time) called the Cambridge. The Beau Brummell came in 1953.
As usual Bulova keeps us guessing.
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