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William Smith
Posted September 13, 2012 - 5:52pm

Fifth- there were many accutrons in the model list subset.  I'll post again below.  In non-accutron watches, the center column has correspond to advertised model names, is used on some crystal packages and catalogs, etc...   They had Accutorn Director w/ various variant letters,  Accutron Astronaut w/ variant letters, Spaceview etc... and this was only by sping 1964.  Those pamphlets which came with this series does not necessarily make it the model name.  Remember "The excellency" series vs all the models w/ unique names in that "series".  There's other examples of "series" pamphlets which don't translate into model names seen in ads, hang tags, etc...   I just don't remember them now....



I'm not saying we should make any changes yet.  Still thinking about that. But I do think it's worthy of discussion :)  ...and I can't convince myself these did not have model names as per the lists and like the 202 ad (price $125) you posted earlier in the thread.  Maybe it simply comes down to the convention we chose to use for accutron on MB.

 

The very two first sentences in the first link you provided (oldfathertime) says: 

Setting the Time for the 214 Model Accutron

(Bulova's original instructions for setting the time on 214 Accutrons including Spaceview, Railroad & Astronaut Models)

This site had to call them something- just like we choose to.  I'm reading further.