1927 Bulova Stainless Steel Wristwatch with Leather Band. Curved white rectangular face, the number 6 replaced by a circular second hand timer. 

We cannot guarantee the working condition of any timepiece.

Size: 1 1/8  9 in. 

Bulova is a New York based corporation making watches and clocks that was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851-1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. At first it focused on jewelry, and began making clocks in 1911, first as table and boudoir clocks and then wristwatches. In 1920 they moved to a new location on Fifth Street, where they built the first-ever observatory atop a skyscraper in order to calculate sidereal time. The company was reincorporated under the name Bulova Watch Company in 1923, and eventually became part of the Loews Corporation in 1979. In 1926 they created the first radio advertisement ever, shortly followed thereafter by the first clock radio. They became famous for a number of horological innovations, perhaps most notably the Accutron watch which used resonating tuning forks as a means of regulating the time keeping function. In July 1941 they paid $9 for the first television commercial, a 10-second spot on WNBT during a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking was founded in 1945 by Arde Bulova, Chairman of the Board, initially to provide training for disabled veterans after World War II. “Accutron” tuning fork watches, first sold by Bulova, use a 360 hertz tuning fork to drive a mechanical gear train. The inventor, Max Hetzel, was born in Basel, Switzerland, and joined the Bulova Watch Company of Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. Hetzel was the first one to use an electronic device, a transistor, in a wrist watch, and the world-famous “Bulova Accutron” sold more than 4 million units until production stopped in 1977. They were the other half of the famous space era rivalry with Omega Watches, both vying to be the first watch on the moon. Ultimately, the Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph wristwatch (known as the “Moon watch”) was designated by NASA for use by the astronauts in all manned space missions, becoming the first watch on the moon on the wrist of Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin. However, all instrument panel clocks and time-keeping mechanisms in the spacecraft on those missions were Bulova Accutrons with tuning fork movements, because at the time NASA did not know how well a mechanical movement would work in zero gravity conditions. Today, Bulova currently manufactures a limited edition “Astronaut” model under its Accutron line of watches.

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