1979 Bulova Accutron

Brand and Country of Manufacture - Bulova, Switzerland Year - 1979 Serial - F97816 Model - 214 Movement & caliber - Tuning Fork Case diameter - 34mm A gold plated Bulova Accutron men's watch. This is a good looking watch that can be dressed up or down. The silver sunburst dial features a full set of stylish applied Roman numerals that sit upright as they follow the dial around, a black chapter ring and gold plated hands. The crown is set at the back of the case on these models which makes the appearance clean and symmetrical from the front, a design theme that was consistent with a number of the 1970's Accutron watches. The movement inside here is the Accutron tuning fork from Bulova. A movement that was the world's first fully electronic watch when launched at the Basel watch fair in 1960. Inside is a 360-Herz tuning fork powered by a one-transistor electronic oscillator, and was the invention of the Bulova engineer Max Hertzel. The standard oscillating rate of a conventiona