Jewelry jar watch. I know very little about watches. Help!

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Goldmedalexchange

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Hello,
Ive recently gotten into the jewelry jars at my local gw and have done fairly well with the last few. One of the most recent jars however had this bulova watch in it and if there's one thing ive learned from reading all your posts, it's to not throw a possibly valuable watch aside because its in rough shape. All I was able to determine was that it may be a foreign based watch based on the day dial. Also it might be nicknamed a devil diver?? As its good to 666 feet? As you can see its in rough shape and the only thing that i can get to move on it is the date dial. Please help give me an idea of what im looking at or point me in a direction so i can research further.

Thanks.
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Well you knew enough to take a chance and that paid off well from what I see, pending you didn't pay a whole bunch on that jewelry jar. I've been looking at the sales of vintage 60s & 70s swiss and older Seiko mechanical divers watches lately and just about every brand of that era is selling very well now. I definitely wouldn't go testing it in the water though, as it is one of the key collectible Bulova's out there. I had one many years ago now. I bought it in a pawn shop in Laramie Wyoming and I know back then I made pretty good profit on it. These days I'm not selling the watches I find and don't like to think about the one's I did sell when I started doing eBay in the later 1990s, but it all water under the bridge now, so I keep looking for more to hang on to.
 

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Goldmedalexchange said:
I'm going to assume it would be worth it to get it fixed up? As its by no means in working order right now.
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Are you planning to sell it? The reason I ask is I have sold watches that I put more money in to and I think the margin I made may not have been as good as if I had just sold it as-is. I have many watches that need serviced, but if I do decide to sell them, they'll be sold as is. If you're gonna keep and wear it, then you'll definitely want it to be fixed up and running. Hopefully what it needs won't be a real big expense.
 

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Congratualtions on the nice purchase! :icon_thumleft:
 

Show me a picture of the back and maybe I can date it. Should be a 2 letter date code back there.
 

It’s a great watch and very collectible. I agree that you should sell it as is rather than spending money to fix it. People that service their own watch will buy it and fix it. Anthony can do it a whole lot cheaper and you can get it done
 

RobMc said:
Show me a picture of the back and maybe I can date it. Should be a 2 letter date code back there.
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The code on the back is p2 and just by googling with the info you gave, looks like it's from 1982. Thanks for the assist.
 

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