Bulova 1974 Model

Submitted by Bizet on April 11, 2013 - 9:44am
16809Y
Manufacture Year
1974
Movement Model
11BSACB
Movement Jewels
17
Case Serial No.
931907
Case shape
Oval
Case color
Yellow
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

Underneath the movement Serial Number:  Seventeen 17 Jewels Unadjusted Swiss - Under the back cover: R/   7596-1 Swiss

Bulova watch
1974 Bulova watch
1974 Bulova watch
mybulova_admin
Posted April 19, 2013 - 9:48pm

Thinking Clipper, but we still have no advert evidence.

Unknown.

Geoff Baker
Posted April 20, 2013 - 6:03am

Bizet - is there any way you can get us close up shots on the front and back of this watch? When you pull the crown out half way and advance the day of the week does it have something other than english?

I think all the knock offs we see coming off the pacific rim are based on this watch, I sure would like to identify this beauty.

Bizet
Posted April 20, 2013 - 7:22am

I will try to get better pics. There days are only in English.

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted April 20, 2013 - 7:28am

'UNKNOWN'

William Smith
Posted April 20, 2013 - 6:48pm

Any chance of higher resolution pictures?   Not going down the "set-o-matic" ID road, so I'm saying Unknown.  
Maybe we can learn more from this watch, like Geoff suggests.

Geoff Baker
Posted April 21, 2013 - 5:45am

I'm going with Unknown for now as well. I'm not sure, but I think we decided a while back not to use Set-O-Matic as a proper name. I do think this is the original watch that seems to be the basis for what we think are the fakes.

Here's the example: http://www.mybulova.com/watches/1979-non-conforming-5065

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted April 21, 2013 - 6:03am

Set-O-Matic is a function, not a 'Series' or Watch Model.

William Smith
Posted April 20, 2015 - 3:03pm

Thinking about how we can edit the current movement serial number entry to facilitate using the search movement serial numbers pull-down function which Admin has created.  I can simply ignore this record in query return, but its obviously not a correct  entry for this field.  

 I can use the "movement serial number starts with" and set a lower end to the return.  I know we don't have a relational database here,  but I can dream/wish.  Would also be nice to subset the query to return serial numbers within movement model field.

I really want to go fishing, but don't have the right tackle to tackle the job.

I'd presented a challenge to some computer science grad students a couple years back...."who would like to try and get the data out of MyBulova.com and create a relational database for a possible Masters thesis...", but without funding, there were no takers....and this task could almost be a dissertation....LOL  It turned out to be a little bit too much to ask for three credits of directed research too, as I tried this offer with no takers.

JimDon5822
Posted July 30, 2023 - 9:50pm

Found this one in a 1974 ad.   1974 Bulova Model #16809Y

Model 16809Y