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Marked BULOVA & Marine Star
Water resistant 100 m
Weighs 100.6 Grams
Face measures approximately 1 1/2” by 1 1/2”
Band measures approximately 7 1/2” & width measures approximately ¾”
We are pleased to offer this BULOVA Marine Star Steel Men’s Watch. This watch is quartz and has a stainless steel case and bracelet. This watch has a champagne sunray dial and one of the simplest clasps there is. It is a latch that snaps closed around a bar. It is released by gently lifting the clasp and unsnapping it from the latch bar. It is water resistant to 100 meters/330 feet. It has luminous hands and markers. This watch is in very good condition with only minor nicks from normal use.
The Bulova Corporation was founded in 1875 by a Czech immigrant named Joseph Bulova, at a small premises in Maiden Lane, New York City. Little did anyone know at the time that this tiny fledgling enterprise was to grow into an empire that would irrevocably change the world of time and one day help put a man on the moon.
At that time, accurate clocks had already been built for many years. Said to have been the original idea of Galileo Galilei in 1582, but first built in practice by Christiaan Huygens, in 1656, pendulum clocks could already keep time to within a tenth of a second a day. With the advent of the mainspring, to replace the weights that had traditionally powered these early pendulum clocks, Huygens also invented the spiral balance spring, still found in mechanical clocks and watches to this day. Like the swing of a pendulum, the coiling and uncoiling of this spiral balance spring had a natural periodicity that regulated the unwinding of the mainspring. This new mechanism was able to replace the pendulum and make the clock more compact and portable. By 1761, John Harrison, a self-taught clock maker, had produced a self-contained spring and balance wheel marine chronometer, fully portable and accurate to within a fifth of a second per day.
By 1911, Joseph Bulova had set up a manufacturing business to build and sell high quality boudoir clocks, table clocks and pocket watches. The business expanded rapidly as news of these fine timepieces spread across the American marketplace. By the following year, Joseph Bulova was able to establish his first dedicated watch manufacturing and assembly plant in Bienne, Switzerland, building only quality fully jeweled movements.
At about the time of the First World War, there were many European watch manufacturers that said that the wearing of a watch on the wrist would never be a popular alternative to the pocket watch. Joseph Bulova, creating a pioneering spirit that was to become the 'culture' of Bulova, started to experiment with compact spring and balance wheel timepieces that could withstand the impacts and shocks of being worn on the wrist. Out of only a handful of manufacturers of the day, Bulova introduced its first line of fully jeweled men's wristwatches in 1919; the company started to grow, exponentially.
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Goodoletom purchased this item from a Hartford area estate. It is unique in our inventory, so Buy It Now and don't be disappointed! (120307AJ02HC)
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