The Bulova watch you wear not just fashion - which represents more than 100 years of quality watches. If you prefer a Bulova Chronograph and Concord, it is important to know the history of your watch!
The Bulova watch company was founded by an immigrant named Joseph Bulova Bohemia in 1875. Bulova watches began production in Woodside, New York, where the company headquarters remain today, Flushing.
Bulova Companybegan the development of innovative techniques watch the first day, but the business really started the story in 1941 when he bought the world's first commercial television. The spot on 1 July WNBT station in New York on the air just before a baseball game with the Dodgers and Phillies. Believe it or not, the commercial cost of only $ 4!
Four years after the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking opened its doors. The structure has been established to train disabled Second World WarVeterans, but his activities soon expanded to accommodate a wider variety of students.
Of course it is impossible to mention hitting Bulova Accutron watches, without cover, the shops in autumn 1960 The Accutron watches features a breakthrough technology, developed by Swiss inventor Max Hetzel, who worked for Bulova since the end of 1940. (Hetzel is just one example of Swiss ingenuity - just born in Switzerland in view of the Concord Mariner series)
Its designIt's a unique system Bulova Accutron tuning fork was the first electronic watch in the world. Inside the houses, at 360 hertz tuning fork was formed between two electromagnet coils, single-transistor oscillator circuit. This has pushed the fork, which in turn feeds the hands and allowed to hold the device. The original Accutron was discontinued in 1977 after more than 4 million watches sold.
The invention of the Bulova Accutron was started not only inthe national spotlight - but in space. During 1960, in competition with his rival Omega Bulova create the "first watch on the moon." Omega has won this battle, as Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, an Omega Speedmaster on his wrist when he set foot on the moon.
But the Bulova watch company also at best - and in the Hall -. As NASA Accutron tuning fork-powered spacecraft for its timing devices used, this is because scientists were unsure of how othersElectronic movements would fare in low gravity.
To commemorate his contribution to the space program, the clock Bulova Accutron watch line currently includes a limited edition to see an astronaut. Only 1,000 of these watches were made, and each is numbered with a cap with "Buzz" Aldrin self-signed.
Bulova made headlines in 2007 when a group of Bulova Automatic excavator looks of the port of Gibraltar to the plan. Thewas seen by a sailor lost in 1941, and was in 2008, still running!
