Bulova Snorkel 666 Feet 35mm ca. 1960 decade.
Hi guys, I've recently bought this 666 feet Snorkel from 1960 decade (35mm), but looking for information on the web, I noticed that there are many variations.
In particular, my Snorkel seems does not have tritium indexes (they seems of white enamel), it does not have the BULOVA logo applied, but just stamped and the bezel is fixed.
On the dial, at 6 o'clock It has three line stamped "AUTOMATIC - WATERPROOF - 666FEET".
The case back has the BULOVA - WATER PROOF indication.
Is It an original dial or it is a fake one? I've always seen tritium dial on the web...
Please help me!
Many thanks!
Andrea
Hello Andrea, welcome to myBulova. This is a very popular model watch. These watches did original have tritium markers. I would say that the watch has the correct dial, although it is possible it has bee refinished. We show this style with two different variants, F & H, I'm trying to determine the difference. This is the best advert we have, it does not mention the variant. I think your watch would date to 1965-1968, it would be nice to have the back opened and date code verified so we can assign the proper year. Thanks for sharing it
196X Bulova Snorkel ( I'm going with no variant)
I've seen Snorkels with both plain white paint and also Tritium, but the older ones will have Radium dials. Although we don't have adverts for them, the price lists show Snorkels back to the 50's.
Radium was still being used in watches until the early sixties, and in clocks until 1978.
This particular example is Tritium, but only the hands. This is not that unusual, as the position of the hands in the dark is enough to tell the time.
Snorkel, year TBD.
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