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Accutron Watches:
What's with the tuning fork?
The
Accutron watch was Bulova's original 'Tuning
Fork' watch, hence the tuning fork symbol adorning
every Accutron watch. Before the era of the quartz
watch, the Bulova Accutron was the best battery powered
watch in the world. In Accutron watches, an electric
current was run through a tiny tuning fork which
vibrated at a relatively constant frequency. That energy
and constant frequency of that vibration was harnessed
to power the watch, and the watches made a really cool
humming sound.
We still receive calls asking
about the tuning fork Accutron watches from time to
time, but with the emergence of more accurate quartz
watches in the 1970s, the Accutron Tuning Fork watch
became a piece of watchmaking history.
If you
are interested in learning more about the Bulova
Accutron or Accutron watches, here are a couple of
interesting articles: http://www.iit.edu/~matleri/bulova.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~fotoplot/accspec.htm
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