Electronic Ignition: Important Accutron

CHF 6,000

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WHY 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 early 1961 (Code M1) -- and it is obviously the optical sibling of the three years earlier presented important electric watch LIP Cosmic R27 "Prestige de la France" (1958). 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.

This example comes with in all original & excellent preserved condition, with a Champagne-sunburst dial with applied indexes & Accutron-logo. NB: The SpaveView configuration (ie. without dial) was not yet used in early 1961 and so it is a Pre-SpaceView.

Interesting beyond that: the case is obviously a reminiscence to the very important LIP Cosmic "General de Gaulle" -- the first electric (not electronic!) 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. Fair & honest by the US-based innovator Bulova to honour the French electric-pioneer LIP.