Bulova Arvostelua 71

I have a Citizen EchoDrive Titanium and a Bulova Precisionist 97B110 watches. Both are good product but the customer care service at Bulova Canada is bad….I’ve been waiting for a simple answer since November 22 2023, using the customer care email. The only reply received yet is that they would respond in two business days…I also left a post on Bulova.com Facebook…No reply as well….Bad customer care experience so far…Not impress

Really disappointed with Bulova watch brand . Despite a 3 year guarantee company refused to honour the guarantee after the stem fell off just after a year . The watch was a present to my wife and only subject to light use . Fortunately the Jeweller F.hinds have been very helpful and offered to repair the watch .
Bulova 3 year guarantee is worthless in my opinion . There decision appears to be arbitrary and no readdress .Buyer beware if you purchase this brand which appears to be going backwards in terms of customer care .

My beautiful watch stopped keeping correct time shortly after purchase. I mailed watch in for service/ warranty work. Tracking shows that watch was received 21 days ago, yet NOBODY has made any contact with me to verify that, nor have they responded to any emails,etc. I'm beginning to think I may never see my watch again. I'm so let down. This was a gift to myself that took me months to pay off. NEVER AGAIN! ( And I will certainly share my bad experience with others.)

Well I certainly should have checked out these reviews before purchasing my Bulova automatic watch. Though I regularly wore it, it lost time and being a kinetic movement this shouldn't happen. Not impressed having being told it would take six weeks but ending up waiting 3 months for it to be repaired. I asked if they were going to extend the warranty being I hadn't had the watch for 3 months, not a hope! Now the warranty has ran out I've now got another problem with the fancy wrist strap catch occasionally opening up, very annoying. Having previously given up on my trusted Seiko kinetic watch after 15+ years (only because of the broken wrist strap) I've decided to pay and get it fully refurbished and bin the crap Bulova. They may be good at designing good looking watches but that's were it ends

I own two bulova watches.
One is good looking but is just kinda meh..messed...
The other is a precisionist dive watch that I absolutely love. Well until the battery died. It was still under warranty so I sent it directly to bulova.
It literally took 3 months for them to even acknowledge that they had recieved it. I just got off the phone to pay them for the worst customer service ever. Oh and a battery, total: 80 bucks. Not to mention, two additional weeks to repair it. I have a Tissot, and that's the entire time it took to fix it, including the shipping to and fro.
I really like bulova, but this is completely over the top bad business.

I just bought a $480 Bulova watch today and the seconds hand is way off. Tried setting it many times and won't set. I had a $110 Nixon watch for 10 years and never had a problem. This is super embarrassing and makes me regret buying your brand. What a waste of money. This was birthday present. Happy fing birthday.

I have two Bulova Accutrons from the 1960’s when the brand was a leader in innovation. Modern Bulova watches are just rubbish. Most have a mineral glass crystal and a cheap Miyota 8215 movement. They are just expensive junk and it’s sad to see a brand fall so low.

Watch is garbage. Amazon would not do anything about it and basically told me Iam on my own. Not a cheap watch. But as Amazon does, they don’t help. I know it’s over a month but I bout it from Amazon not a third party. Bulova would not help. They said they fixed it twice. It still doesn’t work. DONT BUY BULOVA.

Bulova have implemented tracking chips inside the watches without customer knowledge and consent.
A major privacy issue.

I literally got rid of my Bulova watch because of the horrific wait times to get a Bulova customer service rep on the phone. Too cheap to hire enough people I guess. NO CALL BACK feature either as most legit companies have. The service overall is rotton. Bought a Seiko and the watch is great and I get a rep within 2 minutes each time I have called.

I brought a bulova watch about 10 years ago & paid like $1000 for so I aways though you can get a watch like this repaird, I messaged bulova & they can't buff out screen change my battery or replace stones on the strap, I also get find a single person in this world that would touch it. Bulova is a complete waste of money, they should be able to fix old watches not just watches that are a couple years old, you might aswell just throw your old bulova in the bin once it stops working, but top brands can get parts for life

Do not buy a watch from this company unless you want to be forking out £40 every time you need to replace a battery that is only guaranteed for 12 months.
The Bulova watch I purchased 18 months ago stopped working so I returned to the shop who informed me that the watch had to be returned to Bulova to replace the battery. The battery they fit has a life expectancy of up to 2 years maximum. Don't be conned by this manufacturer. As well as the extortionate charge they take between 6 and 8 weeks to return the watch.

I bought a nice and rather expensive Bulova watch on a Transatlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2. Great watch. But the watch band broke. I mailed the watch to Bulova/Citizen Watch repair. They held my watch for at least 7 months. Each time I contacted them, they said they were on back order for the correct band replacement. After 7 months, I received notice from the company that they no longer carry a band replacement for my fine watch. Instead, they offered me a mere credit of $250 toward a new Bulova watch. However, I had to give them my $500 watch in exchange for the $250 credit. Is this fair business practice? I think not. They should have been able to replace band on my watch, which was only 4-5 years old. To me this is bait & switch and a disgrace from the Citizen Watch Company. Shame on them. I will be writing additional negative reviews on other websites because I think the company was cheating me.

Sent my watch in Dec 2019 for repair: Broken crystal and battery had stopped 3 years after purchase. Originally the battery stopped and I brought it into a local watch repair service in town to change out the battery for me. When he got the back off, he could NOT get it back on. I found out online that Citizen style watches purposely do this so that you must send them back to the manufacturer. However, some sites do instruct a way to get the back on yourself...which failed miserably resulting in a broken crystal. So, I sent in my watch for a new battery, crystal, and to have the back put on. Those were the only issues with my watch. Then pandemic hit in 2020, and I knew it would take awhile to repair and send back. Totally understandable. Repair was under $100 and fair. My watch was sent back May 2021. Everything was repaired, except the band of my watch was cut clean in half! Not broken, actually looks like someone snipped it with scissors. It was not damaged when I sent it in and the notes regarding the inspection when it was received by Citizen didn't state the damage. It stated the band being cut in the 6 o'clock position (which was from me cutting off the excess end of the band to accommodate my tiny wrist). The part of the band that was snipped in half was done at the 12 o'clock portion of the band where the buckle was. Called and spoke to service, and they guy was extremely lackluster in his customer service skills and said my watch could not have possibly been cut at their location. I told him if the watchband needed repair at time of sending it in, I certainly would have noted that on my repair instructions. They sent my watch back well packaged in a box with no damage. They finally said they needed to see the watch to survey the damage and I needed to send the WHOLE WATCH back to them in the mail! They said they couldn't just have me send back the watch band only or even better email or text them a photo of the watch with the damaged band. They didn't apologize and the guy sounded totally bored on the phone. Told him I didn't want to send my watch back in to them if it came back with a damaged band to begin with. I don't recommend this company, especially if you need to send the watch to them for repairs. I recommend Etsy or privately owned company if you wish to purchase a watch instead.

This Bulova watch that I got has been sent 3 times to the repair center in 2 year and this time again when I sent it, it was sent back to me with a letter saying that the warrant has expired and I need to get in touch with the menufacturer . I have written to them and its been more then 2 weeks now that I am still waiting to hear from them. I am really disappointed because this was a gift from my husband I have hardly used it literally 4 to 5 times and it has stopped working equal to the time I have used it . I am really upset and tired also and really dont know what to do as no help has been extended at all from anywhere. 98R209 is I guess the model number and that is what is written on the dial.

I bought a Bulova Curv 9 months ago. After 8 months the wristband was broken by the connection with the watch. Contacted Bulova, no guarantee and not possible to repair. 800 euro gone. VERY BAD
Be careful if you consider to buy a watch from this brand.

The bulova’s watch box is now bad quality. Im a bulova lover since many years ago, and the experience to open the box for first time was exiting, but now the box looks like a common box watch, in addition you are spending $200-$500 dollar for a good watch and good presentation.

My husband bought me a watch from here, was beautiful, very happy

I received my Bulova Accutron Precisionist 2 years ago for my 10 yr. work anniversary gift. It was very accurate. However, it is losing an entire minute per day now. I am now wearing my $43 Casio G Shock which is accurate. I was hoping to simply send it in. But must fill out form. I cannot read the serial numbers on back of Bulova. So, putting the Bulova up and back to Casio. Very sad as I assumed it was a tough, accurate quality timepiece. I work at a desk.

In the sixties, Britain was shedding post-war depression and the ‘baby boomers’ were now teenagers with money to spend on fashion, music and changed lifestyles. The BBC was in sole control of radio broadcasting and was still locked in the music hall/band era, playing only established artists and ignoring new music trends.

A young Irishman called Ronan O’Rahilly saw that he would never get air play for the new artists he was promoting, the likes of Georgie Fame, and that the only remedy was to have his own radio station. But British law prohibited this. So, he turned a ship into a floating radio station and anchored it beyond UK jurisdiction in international waters. Radio Caroline was born. The new station was a revelation, playing new pop music all day and soon Radio Caroline had millions of listeners, far more than the BBC.

As the 1967 Sumer of Love approached, everyone was happy aside from the government. In August 1967 the Labour Government introduced the Marine Offences Broadcasting Act, a new law designed to make Radio Caroline and the other copycat stations that had popped up unprofitable by banning, with threats of fines and imprisonment, every activity connected with the stations, including placing advertisements. This law created the ‘pirate radio stations’.

The first main ad on Radio Caroline in 1964 was for Bulova watches and they provided a quartz clock for the studio. A catchy ten-second jingle was created for the hourly time check, with a ‘tick-tock’ backing and a female voice singing: ‘To choose the perfect picture, remember this rhyme, when something happy happens, it’s Bulova watch time’. Bulova also sponsored a weekly show in 1965 ‘Bulova Star Choice’. At that time Caroline had 8 million listeners.

There followed many significant dramas over the year. The sinking of Caroline’s pirate radio ship ‘Mi Amigo’ in the late 70s and its replacement with ‘Ross Revenge’, the ship still in use today and the world’s only remaining radio ship still in operation at sea. The illegal raid by the Dutch authorities in the late 80s who smashed up every piece of broadcasting equipment they could find. The subsequent grounding of Ross Revenge on the Goodwin Sands, one of the few ships to survive running around there.

Fast forward to today and Radio Caroline has overcome and against the odds the station is still broadcasting album music from the 60s to brand-new music with a healthy listener figures online, on DAB and on 648 AM. The station has a loyal following, many who followed Caroline in the early days are still with the station today.

Radio Caroline is run entirely by volunteers. Advertising and sponsorship are important to the station and help to fund station operating costs and maintain its radio ship ‘Ross Revenge’, which is moored on the River Blackwater in Essex.

While Caroline broadcasts 24/7, mainly from land-based studios these days, one weekend a month the station broadcasts live from Ross Revenge as Radio Caroline North. Each live broadcast from the ship is sponsored by a company whose financial support covers some of the costs of the broadcast. Two years ago Radio Caroline station manager Peter Moore approached Russ Dee, director of Rush Jets, who agreed, with sister company Inflight Goods, to sponsor the Christmas broadcast from ‘Ross Revenge’. They also provided two prestigious Bulova watches to give away as prizes in the monthly Radio Caroline North competition, along with some specially made Radio Caroline cufflinks. The partnership was a big success both for Caroline and for Rush Jets and Inflight Goods, who were heavily promoted in return.

Radio Caroline’s association with Rush Jets and Inflight Goods has continued. More broadcast sponsorships followed and both companies are jointly advertising each month on the station. The ad is in the form of a competition to win luxury watches, including Rotary, Timberland and Dreyfuss. Rush Jets and Inflight Goods pay Caroline for advertising and receive income