For the most part, these movements were cased and timed in the USA before shipment to retailers.
Begun as a wholesale jeweler, the company produced small table clocks and good-quality pocket watches, By 1912, driven by the increased demand for wristwatches, Bulova built a factory in Bienne, Switzerland that was capable of mass-producing fully-jeweled wristwatch movements in large numbers. Bulova Company in a store on Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan.
In 1875, Joseph Bulova, a Bohemian immigrant, started the J.