1st Electronic Watch: Important Bulova Accutron, Pre-SpaceView
Bulova Accutron: Important Electronic Pioneer, Pre-SpaceView Tuningfork
- Time (Hour, Minute, Central Second)
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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".
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.
This example comes with in all original condition, with a Champagne-sunburst dial. The SpaveView configuration (ie. without dial) was not yet used (Pre-SpaceView). However, 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.
