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Joseph Bulova, the company's founder, emigrated from Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic, at the age of nineteen, arriving in Manhattan in 1870 to a world brimming with opportunity. Opening his own jewellery store on Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan, then the nucleus of New York City's jewellery industry, he called it J. Bulova, and quickly distinguished himself from the hundreds of jewellers in the district with its quality and innovation in technique and artistry.
