1st Electronic Watch: Important Bulova Accutron, Pre-SpaceView
Bulova Accutron: Important Electronic Pioneer, Pre-SpaceView Tuningfork
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EmailWHY WE LOVE IT? Because this 18K-watch is obviously one of the 1st electronic watches -- the sale of the Accutron started in Oct-1960 and this is guaranteed from 1960 (Code M0) -- and it is obviously the sibling of the two years earlier presented important electric watch LIP Cosmic R27 "Prestige de la France". I am sure the assumption that there are just a few watches with similar relevance and importance in the 20th century is not completely wrong.
To find a 18K-Accutron is complicated, yes. And to find a 1960-Accutron of any material (steel, goldplated, 14K or 18K) is not easier, for sure. But to find a 1960-Accutron made of the rarest material used by Bulova (18K-gold) is something extraordinary and special. And the Bulova Accutron cal214 is not any watch -- it is the worlds first electronic (ie. not electric) watch. So, what we see here is one of the first electronic watches at all and to find an earlier one in 18K is close to impossible.
This example comes with in all original condition, with a Champagne-sunburst dial. NB: The SpaveView configuration (ie. without dial) was not yet used (so it is Pre-SpaceView). Interesting beyond that: the case is obviously a reminiscence to the very important LIP Cosmic "General de Gaulle" -- the first electric and probably most important French watch of the last Century, ie. the true "Prestige de la France". Both pioneers (electric & electronic) share the same lug-shape, hand-style, dial-style (with applied hour-indexes & logo, with engraved minute-indexes) and case shape with setting-crown on the caseback as well as the easy accessible battery-compartment. All this is not by accident but obviously some innovations by Lip in 1958 that were adapted and taken over by Bulova and honoured with a reminiscence of the overall design.
