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Bulova Vintage Art Deco tank wristwatch
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THE STORY
Geometry After Dark
Scenes imagined. Actual watch photographs are in Watch details.
Picture the moment before the lights dim: a polished doorway, a quiet lobby, a sleeve straightened almost without thinking. A rectangular dress watch feels at home in that small interval of anticipation.
Art Deco gave modern life an appetite for strong geometry and carefully arranged detail. The V&A traces its sources through several artistic movements and identifies the Paris decorative-arts exhibition of 1925 as a pivotal event. That is the design context for the phrase “Art Deco,” not an automatic date for every watch described that way. V&A, An Introduction to Art Deco
The exterior caseback photograph bears BULOVA, L3 and 10K ROLLED GOLD PLATE. The last marking describes rolled-gold plating, not a solid-gold case. Actual exterior-caseback photograph Bulova's post-1950 dating system maps L3 to 1953, making a mid-century setting more defensible than a claim of 1920s manufacture. The movement's date and its match to the case still need checking. Watchophilia, Bulova date-code table
Bulova itself had begun in New York in 1875, when Joseph Bulova opened a jewelry business. By the time suggested by L3, the name already carried decades of watchmaking history. Bulova's official history
Imagine that lobby in the early 1950s, its older geometric decoration still admired beneath newly polished lights. The scene is fictional. It gives the watch a setting without assigning it a former owner.
Now look at the real lines of the case and lugs. Their character survives quite well without borrowing an earlier birthday.
The actual watch
Available · $275
Buy Now →Bulova rectangular vintage dress watch with decorative lugs, L3 date marking. Offered by Balance of Time. Servicing has not yet been completed and will be completed upon sale. Please allow 7–10 days to complete a full service when servicing is not advertised as completed. This allowance is for servicing, not shipping. The asking price reflects the intended serviced, running condition; it does not mean service has already been performed.
Servicing pending; current running condition and timekeeping are not verified here. Allow 7–10 days for full service upon sale. See photographs for cosmetic appearance and ask about specific condition concerns before purchase. Existing wear is not represented as repaired. The watch is presented honestly in the accompanying photographs.
BRAND Bulova
MODEL Vintage Art Deco tank wristwatch
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