1960 14kt Bulova Black Dial Accutron

[luke_00]

Dad and myself went down to pick some things up from an online auction that he won and the company that runs the show has a “pickers only sale” which is just for the winners of the auction. So we got the earliest time available for pickup where we could look at the sale. We got there and it was only a couple small tables of stuff but has some pretty decent things. Stuff is typical real cheap at there picker sales and mom and dad has found some good stuff in the past. So I seen a bag of watches on the table and seen a black dial and grabbed it and didn’t even look at it thinking it was something decent and continued adding to my pile. Made a decent little pile and paid $15. Got to the truck after all said and done and in the bag ended up being a 14kt Accutron made in 1960. Definitely wasn’t expecting that but very thankful. The other watches was a 10k rolled gold benrus and one of those red led display watches. So not too bad.

 

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[tamrock]

You did good on that watch.

 

[Elvis]

Wow!! Good haul!!

 

[randazzo1]

That’s a beauty! I had no idea they put those out in 14k. I’ve only seen the GF ones. How rare is it?

 

[luke_00]

That?s a beauty! I had no idea they put those out in 14k. I?ve only seen the GF ones. How rare is it?

Yeah, 1960 was the first year of the Accutron alpha and from what research I?ve done it?s a pretty rare watch. I?ve only found a handful out there and they bring in the $1200-1600 range, and the black dial variants being the more hard to find. Also I cannot find one in white gold which this is. So I?d like to try to find out more about it but pretty happy with my find.

 

[JimDon]

Congrats that?s a really nice one and hard to find too.

 

[artslinger]

Amazing score, and beautiful gold watch! Congratulations.

artslinger