Bulova 1960 American Eagle

Submitted by bruce on August 8, 2012 - 8:51pm
Manufacture Year
1960
Movement Model
11AF
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
E860563
Case shape
Other
Case color
Yellow
Bulova watch
bruce
Posted August 8, 2012 - 8:53pm

I WAS TOLD THIS IS AN

"AMERICAN EAGLE"

I have looked over the vintage ads and can not find this.

OldTicker
Posted August 8, 2012 - 10:56pm

It is an  American Eagle, and there should be a few in the personal watch database, but we don't have any ads in the ad database yet. It has been ID'd by the unique crystal, but it has many different variants from dial color/texture, case color, to lug design.

One thing that is interesting with this watch is that those that we have in the mybulova watch database have a 1960 date of manufacture stamped on the case back, and I personally have not yet come across one that is not stamped M0, but it looks like yours has a 1961 date stamp on the movement, and 1960 on the case.

This is one of my favorite Bulova designs, and yours looks super!

mybulova_admin
Posted August 9, 2012 - 7:14am

American Eagle.

bourg01
Posted August 9, 2012 - 10:28am

Indeed it is an "American Eagle". My variant shown below sports the black linen textured dial, open tang lugs at 12:00 and hooded lug at 6:00 as well as the original band.

Yours is pictured here but with a white dial.

William Smith
Posted August 9, 2012 - 1:00pm

American Eagle from me..

Geoff Baker
Posted August 9, 2012 - 7:24pm

Agree, American Eagle. Yellow gold and black is the best! Great looking watch.

bobbee
Posted August 9, 2012 - 7:44pm

What a breathtakingly handsome watch. AE, but M1-1961 on mvmnt.

bourg01
Posted August 9, 2012 - 7:57pm

bobbee, In this case the movement date does not matter. The watch has been confirmed by an ad and we all have agreed it came with various lug and dial variations. I'd bet there's at least 6 variants based on the models I have owned and I'd bet there's more than 6 based on dials, lug combo's and mix them all up and we have another fine cup of tea to sort out.

William Smith
Posted August 9, 2012 - 8:14pm

Looks more like a cup of mud Shawn, but.....
The (most likely) incomplete model lists indicate 18 variants.  Variants are listed differently in different areas of the list, with some sections showing gold color and dial color of some variants. Note 12213 doesn't occur in top list, but in later lists (further down below).   

below are some of the listings w/ gold and/or dial color: