Swiss Made, Bowtie Spaceview 1964, The case #318 is is Swiss Made, The movement is stamped "214H" "BULOVA" and "SWISS MADE", It has silver illuminated spear hands, The crystal is armored with a silver tension ring, it has illuminated marks at every 5 minutes and the Accutron tuning fork logo as the 12 o'clock mark, The crystal has printed next to the 7 o'clock mark "Bulova Accutron" in white non-illuminated letters.
The last to photos are a USA ver bowtie spaceview and a Swiss ver solid gold bowtie spaceview.
In reply to I think I'm going the other by Geoff Baker
Good point Geoff. We don't have a spaceview conversion ID in the drop-down choices, do we? And although Bulova made some conversion kits, I think it was jewelers and dealerships who did the conversions w/ Bulova produced and authorized kits? Is that right?
Two comments on other Spaceview records by Rev Rob
A high percentage of Spaceviews out there are conversions, and I don't mean conversions the Jewellers did, authorized by Bulova and with Bulova parts. This might help:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~fotoplot/accspace.htm#fsv
There are a lot of converted spaceviews out there, here is a link to check your case number:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~fotoplot/accsvc.htm
Some watches are known to have been converted at the dealerships, others have been done much after the fact.
END OF COMMENTS by Rev Rob
...and the Accutron case/crystal PDF Ken cites is in agreement with your point on 318 bowtie cases only being dialed for Accutrons.
...I'd hate to call the subject Spaceview "non conforming", but that may be another option we have for converted spaceviews which didn't ship from Bulova in their present cases. Is a converted Spaceview ever gonna have an official POS Bulova model name?
I'm good with Spaceview
i don't want to keep harping on the same thing but like i said before this watch isn't converted to a spaceview because with this case there is no room for a dial to be used with it, all other spaceview watches i have seen (not including the swiss chapter ring models) required a dial ring spacer when the dial is gone to make the movement gasket lips sit flush with each other, there is no way to use a dial with this case even if you wanted to, there's just no room for it.....
Has anyone found the elusive ad for this "Bowtie Spaceview" yet? If it ain't got room for a conversion, then it musta come this way.
that is the crystal I will put on my space view conversion altho it might require a little grinding to fit, yours looks really good