Bulova 1963 La Petite

Submitted by 1955mercury on April 20, 2024 - 11:22am
C
Manufacture Year
1963
Movement Model
5AR
Movement Date Code
M4
Movement Jewels
23
Case Serial No.
M95799
Case shape
Other
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Ladies
Watch Description

Got this one yesterday. It's a tiny little watch. It's 10k white rgp and has 2 tiny diamonds. It has a 5AR 23 jewel movement with a "L4" date code. It's on a Kreisler band that may or may not be the original. I think it might be some variant of the "La Petite" but I couldn't find another one posted like it. The only ads I saw that might be it were newspaper ads and not clear enough for a positive ID. 

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neetstuf-4-u
Posted April 20, 2024 - 12:33pm

Cool one, Merc. I found what I think is your girl in the 1963linebook. It was also in the 1962linebook, which is where the text came from.

1963 La Petite "C"  

 

LaPetite DlapetiteC2

The ad text in the 1963 linebook was a typo, saying both were yellow.

1955mercury
Posted April 20, 2024 - 1:12pm

That's it Neetstuf! I never would have found that.  Thank you!

JimDon5822
Posted April 20, 2024 - 10:00pm

1963 Bulova La Petite "C" is a good match.

Kathy L.
Posted April 20, 2024 - 10:35pm

A very popular model in the day I think.  It is lovely.

1963 Bulova La Petite "C"

1955mercury
Posted April 21, 2024 - 5:08am

Thank you all for helping identifying this one for me. I see now that there are many of this model already posted. But I did a search for "La Petite" without putting in a gender and all that came up were the "La Petite" and  "La Petite A" models. That's what I did originally.  I just did a search again and put "ladies" in for gender and they all came up. I've got to remember that.