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Bulova · Surveyor
Bulova Surveyor Automatic
96B469
A 39 mm automatic on a steel bracelet with a sapphire crystal, a light blue sunburst dial and an exhibition caseback — for $495, and with a water resistance rating Bulova declines to express in metres.
Typical street price
$495
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At a Glance
- Self-winding mechanical movement with 42 hours of power reserve
- Date display
- Anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Specifications
- Brand
- Bulova
- Collection
- Surveyor
- Movement
- Automatic, 42 hours of power reserve
- Case
- Silver-tone stainless steel, polished and brushed, 39 mm diameter
- Crystal
- Anti-reflective sapphire
- Bracelet / strap
- Three-link bracelet with push-button deployant clasp, Push-button deployant clasp, 20 mm lug width
- Water resistance
- Splash resistant (Bulova publishes no depth rating)
- Dial colours
- Light blue
- Style
- Dress, Everyday
- Recommended wrist
- Small, Medium
- Country of origin
- United States
What we like
- Anti-reflective sapphire at $495, where most automatics in this bracket still fit mineral glass
- 39 mm with a 20 mm lug width — conventional proportions that take any strap
- Exhibition caseback and a 42-hour reserve
- Light blue sunburst dial with a magnified date, which is not a colour the category offers often
Full specifications
- Brand
- Bulova
- Model
- Surveyor Automatic
- Reference
- 96B469
- Collection
- Surveyor
- Typical street price
- $495
- MSRP
- Not published
- Movement type
- Automatic
- Movement
- Not published
- Caliber
- Not published
- Power reserve
- 42 hours
- Stated accuracy
- Not published
- Balance spring
- Not published
- Case diameter
- 39 mm
- Case thickness
- —
- Lug-to-lug
- —
- Lug width
- 20 mm
- Weight
- Not published
- Case material
- Silver-tone stainless steel, polished and brushed
- Crystal
- Anti-reflective sapphire
- Water resistance
- Splash resistant (Bulova publishes no depth rating)
- Dial colours
- Light blue
- Bracelet / strap
- Three-link bracelet with push-button deployant clasp
- Bracelet material
- Stainless steel
- Clasp
- Push-button deployant clasp
- Date
- Yes
- GMT
- No
- Chronograph
- No
- Style
- Dress · Everyday
- Recommended wrist
- Small · Medium
- Country of origin
- United States
- Released
- Not published
- Selection Score
- Not published
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$495 · Price checked September 3, 2026
Watch Brands: Bulova
Bulova's distinguishing technology is a 262 kHz quartz movement — roughly eight times the frequency of a standard crystal — which produces a smoothly sweeping seconds hand and unusually fine timing resolution.
