Bulova Accutron 'Breguet' Stainless Steel Dress Watch Aerospace although the Soviets refused to

although the Soviets refused to reveal that they too had aspirations to land a cosmonaut on the lunar surface

Like many watches of its era

while its classic steel case and bracelet construction links it firmly to the past

another using the 24-hour dial

Bulova Accutron 'Breguet' Stainless Steel Dress Watch Aerospace although the Soviets refused toIn 1960, Bulova had a vision of the future. And in that future, there was humming. The Accutron was the world's first electronic watch. About a decade before the infamous Quartz Crisis, Bulova put into production a timepiece that did away with the traditional balance wheel, favoring instead a tuning fork design a 360 hertz steel tuning fork powered by electromagnets attached to a battery powered transistor oscillator circuit as its timekeeper.