Bulova adds its proprietary Precisionist High Performance Quartz movement to the sporty Marine Star collection to create a handsome new collection, called Series C.
One of three new Bulova Marine Star Series C models, each fitted with a Precisionist high-frequency quartz movement.
The movement utilizes a 262-kHz high frequency quartz oscillator that allows timing to 1/1,000th of a second and accuracy to seconds per year. While many Bulova watches that utilize the high-performance movement to display tenths, hundredths and thousandths-of-a-second readings within a chronograph design, the new Series C offers a basic three-hand display, with a date window.
The new collection boasts a new 43mm twelve-sided case finished with brushed facets and polished accents. The watches all offer a unidirectional rotating timing bezel with a ceramic insert, a sapphire crystal, and a screw-down crown ensuring 200m water resistance.
The dials here are nicely textured to mimic the look of ocean waves. The wave pattern is accented by applied hour markers.
One debut features a bright yellow dial, which Bulova teams with a black rubber strap ($695).
The second debut offers a silver dial and a matching stainless steel bracelet ($795).
Finally, a third new Series C model enhances its the luxury appeal with a rose gold-tone stainless steel case and a dark brown ‘chocolate’ dial finished, all fixed to a black rubber strap ($750).
Bulova adds two new value-priced automatic models to its classic Surveyor collection, a series that offers a contemporary sculpted-edged case.
One of the new 39mm Bulova Surveyor models, available in three dial options.
All sporting a new 39mm case size, one new Surveyor model offers three sunburst-finished dial options: pistachio green, dark green or burgundy.
Bulova fits the two green models on a quick-release brown leather strap or a matching quick-release three-link stainless steel bracelet.
The burgundy dialed Surveyor, with rose-gold-hued markers, hands and crown, is also fit with a quick-release three-link stainless steel bracelet.
All Surveyor models include luminescent minute markers and a magnified date display. Inside Bulova places an automatic movement with date. Prices: $425 to $475.
If you’re in the market for something with a more luxurious feel, Bulova’s newest Surveyor Heartbeat Automatic might tick your boxes.
With a sculpted Surveyor case, the new watch amps up the watch’s higher-end profile with gold-coloring on the case and on the three-link bracelet. Its Heartbeat dial exposes a portion of the automatic movement below, all framed by a radiant sunburst champagne dial. Price: $525.
Any student who has been accepted or is currently studying at a full-time watchmaking school in the United States and is a veteran is eligible for the Andre Bibeau Scholarship. Prospective students may also apply, with the understanding that the scholarship is contingent on their enrollment at a full-time watchmaking school.
The scholarship will be awarded every April with awards up to $5,000 available. Veterans interested in applying can find information on HSNY’s website.
Pvt. Andre L. Bibeau (1925 – 2016) was a World War II veteran who served in the Army Infantry and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In 1943 he was assigned to the 141st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Meade, MD, and was deployed to the Italian front as a private. He was wounded twice in Italy and subsequently awarded the Purple Heart.
Upon leaving the Army, Andre Bibeau (pictured above) attended the Bulova School of Watchmaking in New York. After graduating from the Bulova School, Bibeau opened his own successful watch repair business until he retired at age 75. The Andre Bibeau Scholarship is made possible by a donation from Maj. Michelle A. Cunningham and Aaron M. Cunningham.
“As a military family we have seen firsthand the fundamental importance of veterans having meaningful careers,” said Aaron M. Cunningham. “We are thankful that the Horological Society of New York shares our goal of helping veterans pursue their passion after their service has finished.”
The new Bulova Limited Edition Meteorite Lunar Pilot.
You might recall that in 2021 Bulova launched the Lunar Pilot collection to pay tribute to the original Bulova chronograph watch that accompanied Apollo 15 astronauts to the moon in 1971.
The latest edition of the steel-and titanium-cased watch also references outer space with its Muonionalusta Meteorite dial, created from a thin sliver of a meteorite formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Bulova explains that meteorites obtain their unusual crystalline pattern as the result of a combination of gravitational compression, collisions and the decay of isotopes. The meteorite goes through a slow-cooling process, forming a unique pattern, over the course of millions of years in space and after chemical interactions with its parent asteroid.
Bulova’s new Meteorite Limited Edition Lunar Pilot replicates the size of the original (at 43.5mm in diameter) and features a sandblasted titanium grade-5 and stainless steel case. Inside Bulova fits its proprietary NP20 High Precision Quartz (HPQ) chronograph movement accurate to 1/20th second.
Additional features include a sapphire crystal, a stamped tachymeter scale on the dial, luminous hands and markers and 50 meters of water resistance. The watch’s screw-down case-back features a lunar relief design with the watch’s production number.
Bulova is making 5,000 Meteorite Limited Edition Lunar Pilot watches, each presented in special box with a storybook, a limited edition card and a Certificate of Authenticity.
At the end of the year, it’s time to note our favorite 2023 debut watches. Starting today and through the end of the week, we’ll re-acquaint you with a few of our favorite timekeepers of the year.
Starting today, we list our favorite watches in no particular order and from all price ranges.
Bulgari: Aluminum Chronograph
Now measuring a slightly larger 41mm in diameter, Bulgari’s Aluminum Chronograph (which won the GPHG Iconic Watch Prize in 2020) is now available in a version sporting an all-black dial, a black rubber bezel and a black rubber and aluminum bracelet. Price: $4,640.
As an enhanced edition of the famed Porsche Design Chronograph 1 from 1972, this watch retains the original’s pioneering black livery. But instead of the original’s PVD steel case, the new models are forged using a more scratch-resistant titanium carbide case. But the revived watch still enthralls with same matte black dial and 41mm case size as the original.
For this special edition, Porsche Design engraves a ‘7’ on the strap to celebrate the seventh Porsche Rennsport Reunion. Turn the watch over to see more commemorative markings, including a platinum-colored winding rotor in the form of the RS Spyder wheel rim with a colorful Porsche Crest (used exclusively for this edition). The rotor winds the superb COSC-certified Porsche Design caliber WERK 01.140. Price: $12,500 (limited to seventy-five pieces in celebration of 75th anniversary of Porsche.)
Oris: AquisPro 4000m
Not only is this debut the most water-resistant diver’s watch we’ve seen from this independent Swiss manufacturer, but its also the sportiest Oris watch to include Oris Calibre 400, a superior automatic mechanical movement that boasts the aforementioned five-day power reserve, plus strong anti-magnetism and chronometric accuracy.At 49.5mm in diameter, the watch is a wristful, but given its 4,000-meter water resistance rating, thin is out of the question. The watch’s titanium case frames an easy-to-read blue gradient dial with a seaworthy wave pattern. Oris fits a blue ceramic insert with the requisite minutes scale into the unidirectional bezel and caps off the case with a blue rubber strap. Price: $6,200.
Bulova: Oceanographer GMT
This nicely retro-styled model retains the look of the existing Bulova Oceanographer ‘Devil Diver’ models, but with a new GMT hand to account for a second time zone. Look for three models in the new collection. One combines brown and black tones with an IP-plated rose gold tone steel case and bracelet.
A second steel-cased edition features a familiar red and blue GMT design often built into dive watches as well as a matching steel bracelet. The third Bulova Oceanographer GMT model (above) boasts a more monochrome look with a gunmetal IP-plated case and bezel set with a full luminous white dial. Prices: $1,295 (luminous dial and rubber strap) and $1,395 (steel bracelet).
Hublot: Big Bang Unico Nespresso Origin
Hublot combined two of our favorite things (coffee and watches) into one green-hued watch when the watchmaker teamed with Nespresso to create an environmentally friendly Big Bang watch made using recycled Nespresso capsules and coffee grounds.
The new Hublot Big Bang Unico Nespresso Origin is a 42mm limited edition watch with a case, crown, bezel, and pushers made from recycled aluminum. The watch’s caseback and movement container are both made from recycled titanium. In a world first, Hublot and Nespresso have transformed used coffee grounds into watch straps. Price: $24,100.
Grand Seiko: GMT Series
Grand Seiko continues to commemorate the quarter-century anniversary of its excellent Caliber 9S mechanical movement series with a new release of two GMT watches —one sporty model and one dressy edition—each powered by a specific edition of the caliber.
Both watches feature dials that echo the skies over Mt. Iwate, in the Iwate Prefecture in Japan, where Grand Seiko hand-assembles its watches. The sportier edition (the Sport Collection GMT Caliber 9S 25th Anniversary Limited Edition SBGJ275, ) features a first forGrand Seiko: a clear caseback on a mechanical watch with water resistance of 200 meters.
On the front, you’ll see a sapphire blue and white rotating bezel marked to indicate three time zones. Grand Seiko fits its Hi-Beat GMT Caliber 9S86 to power the watch, providing a frequency of 36,000 vph and very stableprecision. The 2,000-piece limited edition is priced at $7,600.
We’ll post more 2023 favorites tomorrow and through the end of this week.
The second debut offers a silver dial and a matching stainless steel bracelet ($795).
Finally, a third new Series C model enhances its the luxury appeal with a rose gold-tone stainless steel case and a dark brown ‘chocolate’ dial finished, all fixed to a black rubber strap ($750).
The burgundy dialed Surveyor, with rose-gold-hued markers, hands and crown, is also fit with a quick-release three-link stainless steel bracelet.
