Bulova 1963 President

Submitted by JimDon5822 on June 17, 2018 - 7:35pm
OW
Manufacture Year
1963
Movement Model
10BZC
Movement Jewels
23
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
G368949
Case shape
Round
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Crystal details
Round Plastic
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

I picked this unusual lug Bulova 23 Jewel watch today.  It is an M3 but the movement is M1.  It has short lugs on the top and a different lug on the bottom.   It has a gold concentric circle dial.  I thought maybe a Regatta but can't find a match.

1963 Bulova President OW watch
1963 Bulova watch
1963 Bulova watch
JimDon5822
Posted June 17, 2018 - 10:21pm

I found a match for this as a President.  I suspect it is a 1963 President.   Mine is yellow gold with a yellow gold dial that has the appearance of a record album with concentric grooves.  The Crown stem was rusted and the crown missing.  It appears to be running, just need a neww two piece stem crown set and new crystal.  

 

jabs
Posted June 18, 2018 - 4:03am

Agree with 1963 Bulova President

Bulova watch

neetstuf-4-u
Posted June 18, 2018 - 7:17am

Agreed, 1963 President.

Geoff Baker
Posted June 19, 2018 - 6:48am

1963 Bulova Prsident OW

Kathy L.
Posted June 19, 2018 - 11:14am

1963 Bulova President OW

JimDon5822
Posted May 25, 2020 - 4:25pm

I have been sitting on this one for a while.  I finally thought I would take a stab at restoring it.   I did not have a 10BZC stem but pulled out a 11AF and it fit.   I had the right crown too so I gave it a service. A final crystal polish made the dial pop.  I love the almost orange tone of the dial.  Now that we have the line books I checked for this model and the only one I could find in the 1963 Linebook BAWD0151 page 64 of 72 was a 1963 President "T".   I wonder if for 1963 this is not an OW since the dial color is different from the OW ad?  There is also a President "G" and a "HW" with this case and dial style in earlier year line books .  Best I can tell there is a silver, champagne and gold dial variant for this model now in the MyBulova Database.  None of the line books indicate the color and are described equally. Just not sure we can ID these to a variant.  

1963 President OW

1963 President T

1963 President T