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At some point Bulova Accutron 214 movement got a Calibre Numbering System Change as follows Accutron 214 = 2140, Accutron 214H = 2141, Accutron 214HN = 2142 And a forth Calibre 2143 was added, Although I've never seen a 2140 movement because the Swiss never made a 214 without a hack spring...
Here is one of the Swiss made Accutron 2141 movements I just recently acquired, It's an N6...
For anyone interested here are some Accuton 214 high rez desktop...
The Academy have always been very protective over their naming rights and have had many legal battles with people exploiting it, even to the extent of one such case against someone making Oscar shaped Chocolates, who they sued....madness!
However in 1949 they licensed, for 4 years, Bulova to produce an exclusive line of watches which could be marketed under their name starting from 1950 to 1954, this was to cost Bulova $154,000 to use just the name and emblems associated with the Awards and nothing else....
The 1938-1940-ish American Eagle variants:
A & C
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This is a first for me, A Accutron 214 white face with black markers, It looks to be for one of "Bulova Timer Labs" Accutron 214 panel clocks! The ebay seller also has the same kind of dial but the standard black face with white marks and they are 12 hour dials!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/bulova-watch-antique-working-rolled-yellow-gol…
Bracelet alone is worth 2x the BIN price I think.....
Maybe old news but I hadn't looked to see if I could find old Bulova ad's via online newspaper archives and I saw this!!!
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
The Library of Congress online now! Check it out... some pretty nice high quality ads.
Hi all
I have a bulova booklet which shows the breakdown of manual watches it is approx 4 inches x 4,5 inches in size each page shows a picture of the various stages of dismantement of the movement.
I dont know the actual age of this booklet,but it states it was issued in 1946 on the back page.
The pictures are on cellophane pages which overlay the watch movement.I'
I just submitted this ad to the Admin. It is from a 2/5/32 Santa Cruz (Calif) newspaper. From what I can see Yacht Club looks like a new model name as there is no reference to one when I search this site. Sorry I am new so don't know if this is really correct. I also noticed an Unknown 1931 model that matches this closely. I hope it is true and that i was able to contribute to identifiying this unknown. Regards....Jim