Bulova Clipper Commercial (1950s)

A commercial from the 1950s for the Bulova Clipper featuring the "Niagara Falls test."

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Bulova is a corporation making watches and clocks. It has its headquarters in Woodside, Queens, New York City.

Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851--1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was reincorporated under the name Bulova Watch Company in 1923, and became part of the Loews Corporation in 1979.

Bulova established its operations in Woodside, New York, and Flushing, New York, where it made innovations in watchmaking, and developed a number of watchmaking tools. Its horological innovations included the Accutron watch which used resonating tuning forks as a means of regulating the time keeping function.

Bulova paid $9 for the world's first television commercial, a July 1, 1941, placement on New York station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.

The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking was founded in 1945 by Arde Bulova, Chairman of the Board, initially to provide training for disabled veterans after the Second World War.

Information courtesy of Wikipedia.

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[MattTheSaiyan]

Watches are much nicer looking than iPads.

[inkey2]

@kowalski989 the Bulova you bought...is it an original Bulova (mechanical, wind up) or a new incarnation of bulova?

[kowalski989]

@inkey2 It was about $500 back then. Use an inflation calculator. That's really not that bad considering I just bought a Bulova for $300

[inkey2]

@olivegreen85 yeah, I think the price of this watch back then had to do with a few things.....no competition from large discount chains and the fact that Bulova was a pretty good watch. I repair and collect vintage watches. Actually we could figure out what that would be in todays money.....a gallon of gas was roughly 25 cents back then..$1 = 4 gallons...so 4 x 49 = 196 gallons and even at $3 per gallon that would be $578........wow

[olivegreen85]

@inkey2 No kidding! That's what I said when I saw that: "Forty-nine fifty? You could buy a CAR for that back then!" (Well ... to hear my male parental unit tell it, at least. "For a dollar, I could get the bus downtown, go see a movie — and not just ONE movie, but TWO movies, a newsreel, AND a cartoon — go to the ice cream parlour next door and get an ice cream cone with TWO scoops, ride the bus home, and — AND — still have a nickel left." ... I swear, sometimes, it's like talking to Mr Burns.)

[inkey2]

wow......49 bucks.....thats a hell of a lot of money for back then. Then again there was no competition from discount mega stores and small shops could charge full list price.