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note the "apple bite crunch" at the end?
 
coldplugs said:
......Old tech ain't cheap.
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But it will still function thirty years from now; I'm not convinced the smart watches will do the same.
 
It is a beautiful watch and I agree with the philosophy, but I don't have that sort of money laying around. A good time piece can be had for pretty much any budget.
 
Good to see the real watchmakers are alive and well! Two of my watches are mechanical: An Omega Seamaster and a Waltham chronograph. Wouldn't give 'em up for ANY modern timepiece. Well... mebbe a Tourbillon, but those are too big, thick and heavy in most cases. Must admit I'm fascinated by the mechanical complexity of th' things.

For the every day timekeepers, a couple "Swiss Army" and a Pulsar do the job.
 
I have a Seiko $250 watch that I won in a raffle at a
car show in Williamsburg (spent $5 in tickets),& my Dad's Accutron
that was given to him for years of service.
Still waiting on both,as the band on the Seiko was too
big,& the battery on the Accutron was dead.I've never had a really
nice watch - how's it feel?

- Doug
 
If your Accutron is a 214 or 218 you have a pretty nice watch. A word of warning though, the 214 requires a battery that is pretty hard to find anymore, the 218 uses a more modern battery (the energizer 344 works well). When it was introduced in 60 the Accutron was the most accurate watch in the world, for everyday use I wear a 218 that was made in 1967.
 
Worst watch I've ever owned was, believe it or not, a Bulova! The best watch was a Hamilton railroad type, which I still have. For the money, I don't think you can beat a Timex! For flying I used an Accutron. PJ
 
I'm going to guess that the worst Bulova was not an Accutron PJ? Which Hamilton RR watch did you own? I have a 992 and it is beautifully made and keeps excellent time.
 
coldplugs said:
Great ad. I did a double take - it looks so similar to an Apple smart watch.

Available at your local Tiffany's for a mere $25K. Old tech ain't cheap.
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Old tech might be back....but that doesn't mean I was born yesterday.
if your paying $25k for a watch it's to impress someone else who sees you wearing it; not for keeping time.
 
I have a Skone watch, I believe a European brand, purchased it last summer from a downtown street vendor for $25, a nice looking mechanical watch... My smart phone always goes with me, as it's my "home" phone, but I rarely use it to check the time... Only when I forget to wear my watch when going out, which has happened occasionally...
 
waltesefalcon said:
I'm going to guess that the worst Bulova was not an Accutron PJ? Which Hamilton RR watch did you own? I have a 992 and it is beautifully made and keeps excellent time.
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Walter, I'd have to look for the Hamilton, been put away for quite some time. It has a flip lid on the front and a screw on back. It has a steam engine engraved on the back and the case is white gold. It'd buried in the house somewhere. The Accutron, I bought years ago and have no idea who made it, but it has 3 dials and gives different settable time zones. I haven't worn it since I slowed down on flying, the cheap Timex will take a beating when working on my old cars and still keep good time! :highly_amused: PJ
 
Accutron was a watch that utilized tuning forks in place of a balance wheel, they were made by Bulova but were phased out in the 70s as quartz (which was accurate and much cheaper) began cutting into Accutron sales. It was the first wristwatch that was accurate enough to be certified as a rail road watch in the U.S. If you crack open the back of it open you'll see the tuning forks and their coils and the movement will be engraved U.S.A., Bulova, and the model number.
Fun bit of trivia they were in competition with Omega to supply watches to the space program, ultimately NASA contracted with both Bulova and Omega, with all the astronauts wearing Speedmaster wristwatches and the modules being equipped with Accutron clocks.
 
Interesting info, Walt. THX for taking time to put it here.
 
Funny, I never gave it a thought that this was made by Bulova, my old accutron VX-200.
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PJ, Ahha, you have one of the new Accutrons. It is only an Accutron in name, it is an automatic movement, it lacks the tuning forks of the old Accutrons and they aren't quite as accurate. It is also Swiss made, Bulova moved most of its manufacture to Switzerland in 79 after being bought by Loews, for close to a decade their quality really suffered. The company is now owned my Citizen.

Doc, Happy to oblige.
 
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