The story of BULOVA

Bulova is a New York-based watchmaker.

Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851 – 1936), an immigrant from Bohemia.
Founded in 1945 by Arde Bulova, a watchmaking school designed to provide training to disabled veterans after World War II.

Bulova has developed processes for the production of watches, innovations and various innovative tools for the service of watches. One of the watch innovations included the Accutron watch which used resonance tuning forks as a means of regulating time.

We see the Accutron mechanism with the tuning fork that is between the two electromagnetic coils at the top of the watch.
Accutron watches have been on sale since October 1960 in Bulova.
The inventor, Max Hetzel, was born in Basel, Switzerland and joined the Bulova Watch Company in Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. This important engineer was the first to use a transistor in a wristwatch, which was essentially the first electronic wristwatch. The world-famous “Bulova Accutron” sold more than 4 million units until production ceased in 1977.
The “Bulova Accutron” at that time together with the Omega Speedmaster competed for the watch that would go to the moon with the first astronaut and finally won the Omega chronograph Speedmaster, but all the clocks of the instruments and the time-reservation of the spacecraft mechanisms in those missions were Bulova Accutrons because NASA did not know how well the mechanical clocks would work in non-gravity conditions. Bulova is currently building a limited number of watches marked “Astronaut” below the Accutron line. Buzz Aldrin is signed on the back.

Current Bulova models use an ETA mechanism that is the same as that of rival Omega.
In 2008, after 67 years at the bottom of the sea, a Bulova automatic wristwatch, lost by a sailor in 1941, was found and returned to its owner. It still works today.

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