Bulova Accutron Spaceview 14k Yellow Gold Spiral Lugs founders with its distinctive triangular hour

with its distinctive triangular hour markers and hands… but the Snowflake was not the be-all

and this one stands apart with painted markers (versus applied)

this Reference 4010 is in excellent condition

With only very minimal signs of wear

Early examples of the Fifty Fathoms not destined for military service would bear a special design on the dial signifying that the luminescent material was not highly radioactive Radium

Bulova Accutron Spaceview 14k Yellow Gold Spiral Lugs founders with its distinctive triangular hourIn 1960, Bulova had a vision of the future and that future hummed with potential! About a decade before the Quartz Crisis, Bulova introduced a watch that did away with the traditional balance wheel, instead using a 360 hertz tuning fork attached to a battery powered transistor oscillator circuit as its heart. Designed by Max Hetzel, the Accutron made waves, becoming the first wristwatch precise enough to be qualified for U. S. Railroad certification