Bulova

Bulova is a New York-based corporation making watches and clocks.

It was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851–1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was reincorporated under the name Bulova Watch Company in 1923, and became part of the Loews Corporation in 1979. Bulova established its operations in Woodside, New York and Flushing, New York, where it made innovations in watchmaking and developed a number of watchmaking tools. It is famous for a number of horological innovations, perhaps most notably the Accutron watch, which used resonating tuning forks as a means of regulating the time-keeping function.

“Accutron” tuning fork watches, first sold by Bulova, use a 360 hertz tuning fork to drive a mechanical gear train. The inventor Max Hetzel was born in Basel, Switzerland, and joined the Bulova Watch Company of Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. This outstanding engineer was the first one to use an electronic device, a transistor, in a wristwatch. Thus, Max Hetzel developed the first watch in the world that truly deserved the qualification of “electronic” in the world-famous “Bulova Accutron.” More than 4 million were sold until production stopped in 1977. This Accutron 50th anniversary reference C877665 is a stainless steel quartz wristwatch, circa 2010, limited edition to only 1,000 pieces. Case diameter in 41 mm, stainless steel and with green leather strap. This watch comes with paper and box.

Fits a wrist size of 8 inches or smaller.