1954 23 JEWEL SELFWIND MINT WATCH
Thanks Jim, is the caseback stamped 10kt RGP anywhere? The few examples of this style I have seen tend to be 10KT RGP in the first years (54,55) then I see mostly stainless cases after that.
I'm at Bulova 23, no variant based on my comments above. Perhaps someone else can find a matching ad.
Still checking. One ad in the The Bulova 23 series on the main home page shows a black dialed variant, however I don't think its showing the starburst dial. I think instead of "starburst" with ridges radiating outwords from center of dail, the ad is showing a dial with the concentric ridges in circles getting larger from center of watch. I'm not finding a single "starburst" dial with radium, so ruling out a variant based on no radium hands/dial may not apply to Starburst dials.
EDIT: I'm now seeing starburst dial w/ radium, and an ad which doesn't state radium dial but seems to show "dots" of radium outside the hour markers.