Bulova 1967 Accutron

Submitted by Accutronitis on October 5, 2014 - 1:37am
209
Manufacture Year
1967
Movement Model
214H
Movement Jewels
17
Movement Serial No.
-
Case Serial No.
1-370427
Case shape
Round
Case color
White
Case Manufacturer
Bulova
Crystal details
Clear 33.6mm Armored
Gender
Mens
Watch Description

Swiss Made, Hidden Spaceview 1967, The case #316 is is Swiss Made, The movement is stamped "214H" "BULOVA"  and "SWISS MADE",  The crystal is armored with a silver tension ring, The Dial is a Sliver dial face with "SWISS" printed in black lettering under the 6 o'clock marker.

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JP
Posted October 5, 2014 - 1:48pm

Beautiful watch. Accutron "B"

Geoff Baker
Posted October 6, 2014 - 5:50am

This is what I found, looks close. I think that says "209". It's the 3, 6 & 9 markers that look the same.

 

ArchieGoodwin
Posted October 6, 2014 - 6:00am

Such a fabulous example Accutronitis.  Love the chapter ring minute track. 

 

Eric

bobbee
Posted October 6, 2014 - 6:18am

Good find Geoff on the ad, agree with  "209".

Love the watch.

jabs
Posted October 6, 2014 - 6:24am

Good find watch and ad. Accutron "209"

Andersok
Posted October 6, 2014 - 12:49pm

Agree with the 209, nice ad find

William Smith
Posted February 26, 2015 - 4:48pm

Goeff's ad is from 1965.  I found two entries for the Accutron 209 in the Spring Price list.  Snippet below.  The unique Bulova product numbers for the two 209's shoud be telling us something, I just can't figure out what yet.  There's rhyme and reason to their assignment...its just beyond us for now.

Accutronitis
Posted February 26, 2015 - 4:59pm

Sometimes i've seen where it says in small print at the bottom of a ad something like "silver dial 21038 or black dial 24002" or something very close to that.....

William Smith
Posted February 26, 2015 - 5:15pm

In reply to by Accutronitis

Thanks
It's hard for me to go fishing for patterns or associations with hard copy and a pencil and paper.  LOL

Sometimes we "see, remember, then recognize patterns", like in the fist digit of case serial numbers referring to year of manufacture for the earlier Bulova models.  Mark (FifthAvenueRestorations) figured this one out by just noticing sheer numbers which fit the pattern.  He's acutally cited as the guy who "discovered" this patterrn in Lisa's NAWCC Bulova article.  And we all discussed this pattern here on MyBulova for a year or so before/after Mark pointed it out.  

If these price lists were parsed out in some kind of database, then we could really go fishing...
I've tried OCR on the PDF's of price list, but then getting them into relational database is too challanging for me.

Where's Mark when you need him... :(

Accutronitis
Posted February 26, 2015 - 5:36pm

Wow i wish i understood more about what you are talking about, it sound like if you look at a large enough cross section of first digit case serial numbers ver year of manufacture someone might be able to deduce earlier Bulova models from that serial information....