1970 Diamond Clipper, Beau Brummel or Diamond Excellency, not sure which. I've looked through all the adverts available, and can't find this model. It has the fancy case of the Excellence line, with the diamonds of the Beau Brummel and the general look of the Clipper. Hopefully the experts here can help me figure this out before it shows up in the mail!
Mike
That's cool, I'm just trying to shed some more light on this particular era of Bulova watches, and I've come to some conclusions that, hopefully, will become confirmed over time.
I'm looking forward to more discussion, and peer review, of my (Modus Ponens derived) conclusions.
Cheers,
Mike
Yes, perhaps I was too hasty to dismiss the BB as an option. The late 60's BBs were 23 and 30 jewels, but they may have gone back to 17 at some point between 1968 and 1972.
The Beaus in the above ad are more like an upper mid-range variant rather than the high end Beaus of the 1950's and 1960's, though, and they are definitely not in the Clipper family, lacking the water resistant and automatic features.
Mike
There seem to be many BB variants looking at the designation letters, and we can't rule out a possible water resistant cased model. The last known ad is for a Dec. 1967 17 jewel model, so who knows what else Bulova put out in this model line.
Here we have the same price BB in a 1969 advert, looks to be the same 17 jewel model, it even uses the same image, check hand positions.
Source and date in the clip.
Another BB ad from 1972 17 jewel "AZ" model. Date and source in the pic.
So from this it seems at least these were for sale, and probably in production too.
In reply to Found it. 1970 Beau Brummel by JimDon5822