AUTHENTIC VINTAGE GOLD TOP BULOVA MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: BULOVA MILITARY

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS BY BULOVA WATCH COMPANY

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1950's

MODEL: MILITARY

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACCRYLIC CLEAN/BERSIH

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SWISS 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK MILITARY

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: SILVER TONE / KEPERAKAN

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: WHITE ARABIC

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 16mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 34mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 39mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING:

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BROWN LEATHER BAND

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL VERY RARE AND HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: RM480 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

VINTAGE CARAVELLE BY BULOVA GENTS TANQ WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC CARAVELLE TANQ GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS BY BULOVA WATCH CO.

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1970's

MODEL: DRESS WATCH

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: CLEAN ACCRYLIC CRYSTAL / BERSIH TANPA CALAR

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: CARAVELLE 7 JEWELS MANUAL MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: CHAMPAGNE

FUNCTION/FUNGSI:

HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE / KEEMASAN

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: GOLD TONE STICK

CASING : GOLD PLATED STAINLESS STEEL / SADUR EMAS KELULI

LUGS: 17mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 31mm DIAMETER WITH CROWN and 37mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: ORIS LOGO

CROWN: GOLD PLATED/ SADUR EMAS

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BROWN LEATHER/ KULIT ASLI WARNA COKLAT

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

LIKE NEW, WORKING CONDITION, RECENTLY SERVICE & KEEPING TIME

PRICE/HARGA: RM380 (SOLD TO MIE FROM MONT KIARA, KL)

SOLD:RM200

BRIEF HISTORY OF CARAVELLE WATCHES BY BULOVA

Caravelle Watches is an excellent line of dress watches manufactured by Bulova.

The company's history dates back over 120 years and started as the dream of Bohemian-born Joseph Bulova. When he immigrated to the United States in 1875, he immediately opened a little jewelry store in New York City.

Caravelle Watches is today's lifestyle standard for timepieces designed for the needs of the busy consumer. The tempered finish is 23-karat gold plate and operates with a precision quartz movement that is one of the most accurate in the industry. Watch bands come in three choices, specifically finely made bracelet styles, genuine leather, or stainless steel.

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 RAILROAD GENTS WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 RAILROAD GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1976

MODEL: RAILROAD

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 TURNING FORK MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: SILVER TONES

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: QUICK SET DATE AT 3:00

HANDS/JARUM: SILVER TONE/ KEPERAKAN

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: RAISED SILVER TONE STICKS MARKERS

BEZEL: -

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 37mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 42mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: BULOVA~STAINLESS STEEL CASE~N6 (1976 - PLEASE CHECK BULOVA DATING )

CROWN: SIGNED ACCUTRON SS CROWN (BRASING)

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE NEW BLACK LEATHER STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, HUMMING AND KEEPING TIME ACCURATELY, DISCONTINUED MODEL & VERY HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: RM700.00 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

Brief Information on Bulova Accutron Turning Fork

The low frequency of the balance wheel made it impossible to improve the accuracy of the present mechanical watches. Therefore the Bulova Watch Company Switzerland, knowing that the American army was in need of a better time base for their instruments, asked the Swiss engineer Max Hetzel in 1952 to look into the possibility of the application of a higher frequency in a watch.
Max Hetzel was born in Basle in 1921, graduated in 1946 at the Zurich Federal Polytechnic School as an electronic engineer, worked on TV and Communications 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 wrist watch. Thus, Max Hetzel developed the first watch in the world that truly deserved the qualification 'electronic': the world-famous 'Bulova Accutron'.

1953	Max Hetzel receives the first useful transistors, the 'CK 722', from Raython USA and produces his first working model by hand. The length of the tuning fork was five centimeters. The patent application is filed in Switzerland on June 19th 1953 under no. 312290.
1954	The ATO electronic pendulum clock is shown at the CIC in Paris, the first clock in the world with a transistor and without electrical contacts. In June, the first useful batteries suitable for watches, invented by Mallory, become available. In November, the first prototype wristwatch is made to function.
1955	Eight watch-sized models are produced in Bienne. In Switzerland many doubted whether 'The Accutron' would become successful.
1956	The president of the Bulova Watch Co. in New York, Arde Bulova, and his engineers become enthusiastic about the tuning fork system.
1959	Max Hetzel goes to New York with his family and becomes Chief Physicist at the headquarters in Jackson Heigts, New York. The Bulova Accutron is developed by team work of two scientists: Max Hetzel and William O. Bennett. The start of the production-engineering phase takes off.
1960	On October 10th, the new president of the Bulova Watch Co., Omar N. Bradley, ex-chief of staff of General D. Eisenhower and known for hisparticipation in the Normandy Offensive, announces the Bulova Accutron caliber 214, the first electronic watch in the world. Cased in steel, gold or platinum, the number of parts had been dramatically reduced to a mere 27 of which only 12 were moving parts. By comparison, a selfwinding watch at that time contained about 136 parts, 26 of them moving. The sale of the Accutron starts on October 25th.
1964	The 'Bulova Accutron' is chosen to be buried for a time period of 5000 years on the grounds of the New York World Fair in order to save it for future generations as an example of one of the 44 most innovative objects to be invented during the last two and a half decades.
1964-1970	In different trips into space with the 'Explorer' and the 'Apollo', the 'Bulova Accutron' is used by astronauts with full satisfaction.
1966	The first tuning fork wrist watches are registered at the Observatory of Neuchtel by Ebauches S.A. and by C.E.H. of Neuchtel.
1973	At this time four million 'Bulova Accutrons' have been sold since production started.

Description of the Accutron.

The 'Bulova Accutron' has a frequency of 360 oscillations per second (360 Hz). The vibration of the tuning fork is controlled by a transistorised circuit in the following way:

When the left magnet on the tuning fork moves to the right, the phase-sensing coil generates an induction voltage on the base of the transistor. The transistor 'switches on', becomes a conductor instead of a resistor and the electrical current is able to start flowing through the right circuit. The drive-coil becomes a magnet and gives an impulse to the permanent magnet. The movement of the permanent magnet in the driving-coil also causes an induction voltage opposing the power cell voltage. The result is a very small electric current and a prolongued battery life.
The problem of turning the linear motion of the fork into a circular motion of the hands is solved in the following way: the index jewel is connected to the fork and pushes the ratchet wheel one tooth forward, the pawl jewel is fixed to the watch frame and prevents the ratchet wheel from revolving backwards. The ratchet wheel was an outstanding technical achievement: 2.4 mm in diameter, 0.04 mm thick and 300 teeth, each 1/100 mm high. In one year it revolves 38 milion times. To protect the ratchet system, the Accutron may be set only by turning the hands in a forward direction.
Another technical hallmark were the coils: the driving coil has 8,000 turns made of wire with a diameter of 0.015 mm and an incredible length of about 90 meters.

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 TURNING FORK DRIVER GMT GENTS WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 DRIVER GMT GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1960's

MODEL: DRIVER GMT

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: BULOVA ACCUTRON 218 TURNING FORK MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: TWO TONES

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: DATE AT 3:00 AND GMT

HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE/ KEEMASAN

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: GOLD TONE ARABIC /ARABIK KEEMASAN

BEZEL: -

CASING : 10K GOLD ELECTROPLATED / SADURAN EMAS 10K

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 37mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 42mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: BULOVA~STAINLESS STEEL CASE~N3 (1970 - PLEASE CHECK BULOVA DATING )

CROWN: SIGNED ACCUTRON GP CROWN

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE NEW BLACK LEATHER STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, HUMMING AND KEEPING TIME ACCURATELY, DISCONTINUED MODEL & VERY HARD TO FIND DRIVER GMT WATCH

PRICE/HARGA: SOLD TO JOHN STEWARD FROM KOKOMO, INDIANA, USA

Brief Information on Bulova Accutron Turning Fork

The low frequency of the balance wheel made it impossible to improve the accuracy of the present mechanical watches. Therefore the Bulova Watch Company Switzerland, knowing that the American army was in need of a better time base for their instruments, asked the Swiss engineer Max Hetzel in 1952 to look into the possibility of the application of a higher frequency in a watch.
Max Hetzel was born in Basle in 1921, graduated in 1946 at the Zurich Federal Polytechnic School as an electronic engineer, worked on TV and Communications 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 wrist watch. Thus, Max Hetzel developed the first watch in the world that truly deserved the qualification 'electronic': the world-famous 'Bulova Accutron'.

1953	Max Hetzel receives the first useful transistors, the 'CK 722', from Raython USA and produces his first working model by hand. The length of the tuning fork was five centimeters. The patent application is filed in Switzerland on June 19th 1953 under no. 312290.
1954	The ATO electronic pendulum clock is shown at the CIC in Paris, the first clock in the world with a transistor and without electrical contacts. In June, the first useful batteries suitable for watches, invented by Mallory, become available. In November, the first prototype wristwatch is made to function.
1955	Eight watch-sized models are produced in Bienne. In Switzerland many doubted whether 'The Accutron' would become successful.
1956	The president of the Bulova Watch Co. in New York, Arde Bulova, and his engineers become enthusiastic about the tuning fork system.
1959	Max Hetzel goes to New York with his family and becomes Chief Physicist at the headquarters in Jackson Heigts, New York. The Bulova Accutron is developed by team work of two scientists: Max Hetzel and William O. Bennett. The start of the production-engineering phase takes off.
1960	On October 10th, the new president of the Bulova Watch Co., Omar N. Bradley, ex-chief of staff of General D. Eisenhower and known for hisparticipation in the Normandy Offensive, announces the Bulova Accutron caliber 214, the first electronic watch in the world. Cased in steel, gold or platinum, the number of parts had been dramatically reduced to a mere 27 of which only 12 were moving parts. By comparison, a selfwinding watch at that time contained about 136 parts, 26 of them moving. The sale of the Accutron starts on October 25th.
1964	The 'Bulova Accutron' is chosen to be buried for a time period of 5000 years on the grounds of the New York World Fair in order to save it for future generations as an example of one of the 44 most innovative objects to be invented during the last two and a half decades.
1964-1970	In different trips into space with the 'Explorer' and the 'Apollo', the 'Bulova Accutron' is used by astronauts with full satisfaction.
1966	The first tuning fork wrist watches are registered at the Observatory of Neuchtel by Ebauches S.A. and by C.E.H. of Neuchtel.
1973	At this time four million 'Bulova Accutrons' have been sold since production started.

Description of the Accutron.

The 'Bulova Accutron' has a frequency of 360 oscillations per second (360 Hz). The vibration of the tuning fork is controlled by a transistorised circuit in the following way:

When the left magnet on the tuning fork moves to the right, the phase-sensing coil generates an induction voltage on the base of the transistor. The transistor 'switches on', becomes a conductor instead of a resistor and the electrical current is able to start flowing through the right circuit. The drive-coil becomes a magnet and gives an impulse to the permanent magnet. The movement of the permanent magnet in the driving-coil also causes an induction voltage opposing the power cell voltage. The result is a very small electric current and a prolongued battery life.
The problem of turning the linear motion of the fork into a circular motion of the hands is solved in the following way: the index jewel is connected to the fork and pushes the ratchet wheel one tooth forward, the pawl jewel is fixed to the watch frame and prevents the ratchet wheel from revolving backwards. The ratchet wheel was an outstanding technical achievement: 2.4 mm in diameter, 0.04 mm thick and 300 teeth, each 1/100 mm high. In one year it revolves 38 milion times. To protect the ratchet system, the Accutron may be set only by turning the hands in a forward direction.
Another technical hallmark were the coils: the driving coil has 8,000 turns made of wire with a diameter of 0.015 mm and an incredible length of about 90 meters.

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BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BULOVA WHALE MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1960's

MODEL: MILITARY

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: BULOVA 17 JEWELS AUTOMATIC WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK MILITARY/HITAM MILITARI

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: SILVER TONE/ KEPERAKAN

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: WHITE ARABIC /ARABIK PUTIH

BEZEL: ONE PIECE TOP CASE

CASING : ALL STAINLESS STEEL / KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 36mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 38mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: BULOVA~STAINLESS STEEL CASE~N 0 (1970 - PLEASE CHECK BULOVA DATING )

CROWN: UNSIGNED SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: STAINLESS STEEL FLEXI BAND

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & HARD TO FIND

NOTICE: VINTAGE WATCHES AGED 30YRS IS NO LONGER GUANRANTEED IT'S WATERPROOF AND WATER RESISTANT SO AVOID FROM DIRECT CONTACT WITH WATER

PRICE/HARGA: (SOLD TO C.B CLEMENT, TUCSON, USA)

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I received the watch today in good condition.

It was a pleasure doing business with you.

If you come across any Oris or Zodiac watches, let me know. Especially, "Moon Phase" models.

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Bulova, Accutron and Caravelle Watches and Their Place in Time

1912 - Bulova sets up its first plant dedicated to the production of watch components and their assembly into jeweled movements in Bienne, Switzerland. 1919 - During World War I, the convenience of wristwatches (as opposed to pocket watches) is discovered. In 1919 Bulova introduces the first full line of men's jeweled wristwatches. 1875

1875 - Joseph Bulova, a 23-year-old immigrant from Bohemia, opens a small jewelry shop on Maiden Lane in New York City.

1911 - Bulova begins manufacturing and selling boudoir and table clocks as well as fine pocket watches. These pieces are sold in unprecedented numbers.

1912 - Bulova sets up its first plant dedicated to the production of watch components and their assembly into jeweled movements in Bienne, Switzerland. 1919 - During World War I, the convenience of wristwatches (as opposed to pocket watches) is discovered. In 1919 Bulova introduces the first full line of men's jeweled wristwatches.

1920 - Bulova Watch Company, Inc. moves to 580 Fifth Avenue and builds the Bulova Observatory on top of the building for the taking of sidereal time. This is the first Observatory ever built atop a skyscraper. The Observatory is under the direction of a mathematician whose readings are electrically recorded, instantaneously, on a chronograph hundreds of feet below the observatory, guiding the Bulova watchmakers in the Setting and Timing unit of the Company.

1923 -The name Bulova Watch Company, Inc. is adopted. Bulova perfects a new concept in the watch industry with total standardization of parts. Every part of a Bulova watch is made with such precision (standardized to the ten thousandth part of an inch) that it is interchangeable with the same part in any other Bulova watch. This revolutionizes the servicing of watches.

1952 - Bulova introduced Accutron Turning Fork, the first breakthrough in timekeeping technology in over 300 years. Accutron, the first fully electronic watch, promises to keep time to within 2 seconds a day.

1953 -Recognizing new trends in the watch industry, Bulova adds more self-winding and shock-proof watches to its line. Also added this year is the Bulova Wrist-Alarm, an entirely new kind of watch.

1960 - NASA asks Bulova to incorporate Accutron into its computers for the space program. Bulova timing mechanisms eventually become an integral part of 46 missions of the U.S. Space Program.

1969 -An Accutron watch movement is part of the equipment placed on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts, the first men on the moon. A Bulova timer is placed in the moon's Sea of Tranquility to control the transmissions of vital data through the years.

2002 - The opening of European headquarters in Fribourg, Switzerland, marking Bulova’s return to full proprietary operations in Europe after nearly a quarter of a century. Made in Switzerland, with product development at both Bulova Swiss, S.A. and Bulova’s home office in New York, the Bulova European Collection is set to begin distribution on January 1, 2003.