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Bulova Accutron 'Dynamic'
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Renowned for expertise in luxury watch retail, Watches of Switzerland embodies the highest standards of craftsmanship and service. With a history dating back to the 1700s, the company offers a curated selection of premier timepieces and commits to excellence in customer experience grounded in a legacy of trust and industry proficiency.
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Our commitment to you does not end at delivery. We offer the following return services to make your experience as pleasant as possible.
10-Day Returns For Timepieces:
Timepieces purchased online can be returned or exchanged within 10 days from when they are shipped or collected.
30-Day Returns For All Other Purchases:
All other online purchases can be returned or exchanged within 30 days from when they are shipped or collected.
On presentation of the original receipt, your purchases may be returned or exchanged at any of our store locations. Alternatively, you may elect shipping to our facility with all the original paperwork. All refunds must be credited to the same tender used for the original purchase. To return the online purchases through secure shipping service, please contact our client service team who will provide you the shipping label, free of cost*.
All returns or exchanges must be in new, unworn condition, with no scratches or markings, not sized or adjusted and in their original packaging and with warranty cards / certificated and instruction booklets.
*For order under $300 and all international returns:
Return Shipping: Clients are responsible for shipping items back to our U.S. facility, including all associated costs such as duties, taxes, and carrier fees.
Refunds/exchanges only in the country of purchase.
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Accutron Watches Bulova Accutron 'Dynamic' - (Ref. 40992734/AS11337) Product Details
Overall Condition: Very good condition overall. Case shows moderate wear. Dial and matching handset show even patination.
"Are you ready? Because I want you to pay attention. This is the beginning of something."
So begins Season 7 of Mad Men, with Freddie Rumsen pitching the new Bulova Accutron: "It's not a timepiece — it's a conversation piece." When the real Accutron debuted in 1960, it wasn't hyperbole. It was a revolution.
To understand why, we turn back nearly a century. Joseph Bulova founded his company in 1875, later establishing a modern movement manufacture in Biel, Switzerland, in 1912 and applying American mass-production techniques to watchmaking. By mid-century, Bulova had become one of the most influential horological manufacturers in the United States—known as much for its technical ambition as for its forward-thinking design and advertising.
That ambition culminated in the Accutron. As the world's first fully electronic watch, it offered accuracy and reliability far surpassing those of traditional mechanical watches. Its tuning-fork oscillator, humming at 360 Hz, produced a perfectly smooth sweep of the seconds hand, powered by a dry-cell battery and electromagnetic coil. Conceived by Max Hetzel and inspired by 19th-century tuning-fork experiments by the Breguet family, the Accutron became a technological milestone worn by astronauts, engineers, and professionals who needed unwavering precision. Although quartz would later surpass it, the Accutron's legacy remains foundational; in 2020, it was reborn as a standalone brand dedicated to preserving that heritage.
The present watch features a sharp white crosshair dial—long favored by medical professionals for quick, quadrant-based time reading—along with applied indices, a baton handset, crown at four, and the tuning-fork emblem at 12 o'clock. Paired with a brown leather strap and stainless steel pin buckle, it even carries a personal touch: a 25-years of service engraving on the caseback, dating the watch to 1973.
A reminder of the moment when the future arrived on the wrist, this Accutron remains as compelling today as it was in its humming, space-age prime.
General
Condition
Pre-owned
Brand
Accutron Watches
Reference
40992734/AS11337
Year
1970s
Family
Dynamic
Product Code
40992734
Watch Display
Analog
Case
Case Size
38 mm
Case Material
Stainless Steel
Lug Width
18 mm
Dial
Dial Color
White
Movement
Type
Electric
Bracelet
Bracelet Material
Leather
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