Bulova
Bulova is a subsidiary of the Japanese Citizen Holdings group. a. becamefamous forits tuning fork watch Accutron andmanufactures watches in the USA and Switzerland.
Joseph Bulova (1852-1935), an immigrant from Bohemia , made in 1875 in New York as a watchmaker independently , where he movements from Switzerland imported and internal in self-made housing. These activities resulted in the establishment of an own factory in Biel , which Joseph's son Arde later managed and expanded considerably. More and more wristwatches were produced. Bulova tried very hard to keep the rate deviation as small as possible, giving important impulses to the development of automatic wristwatches. Particularly noteworthy, however, is the subsequent Accutron tuning fork watch.
On July 1, 1941, the first television commercial was broadcast for a Bulova watch . The New York City- based broadcaster showed a Bulova watch for one minute.
The Biel plant was closed in 1983, while the American Bulova Corporation continues to exist. The company Bulova Corporation was sold by the previous majority owner Loews Corporation to the Japanese company Citizen .
Web links
- Bulova website
- The tuning fork watch from Bulova. Watch Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Léopold Defossez: "Accutron", the Bulova electric wristwatch . In: Schweizer Uhren und Schmuck Journal , 1961, pp. 79–86.
- ↑ Bill Bryson : Made in America , p. 290 (English).