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An Academy Award Foil Charm

Submitted by Kathy L. on
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I am sure some of you may have seen these before but it was the first one I have seen.  It has the phrase that cause Bulova and the Academy Award to have their falling out.  Fashion Academy Gold Medal Awarded to Bulova for Outstanding Design.  This one is dated 1951.  

Edit:  I think it is a tag not a charm.

New Bulova Watch Ads Pre-1920

Submitted by JimDon5822 on
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The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America) · 14 Jul 1918

Amazing ad from 1918 regarding a supply of 200 Bulova trench watches available for WWI soldiers.  This predates the Bulova history on this site that says wristwatches were introduced in 1919.

 

Accuquartz movement

Submitted by davep on
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Recently bought a 1973 Accuquartz, but should have studied the photo of the movement more closely as although the blurb described it as  having an Accuquartz movement  it is in fact a Schild AS 536 121 quartz movement (which I understand might be a quality item?). I can only imagine that this was an aftermarket replacement as  the the tuningfork/quartz 'hummer' continued to be fitted into Accuquartz into the late 70's. Having said that I am otherwise pleased with watch as it is in really good cosmetic  condition and keeps time well .

Genuine Accutron Astronaut 214 RED 24 Hour Hands !

Submitted by Astronaut M2 on
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You may have seen others state in one watch forum or another that the Accutron Astronaut 214 never came from the factory with a RED 24 hour hand but just know that comes from someone that just lacks enough first-hand Accutron 214 experience, I myself have worked on more than one Accutron Astronaut 214 that had the factory RED 24 Hour hand and had traceable history back to the factory and so have other known and highly experienced Accutron 214 repairmen such as Bob Piker at MyBob.net not to mention there is plenty of photographic evidence out there showing many examples of Accutron Astrona
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