Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Bulova Accutron Spaceview. In retrospect, ...

Long before Apple, Garmin, Timex and Casio, Accutron invented the world’s first fully electronic watch. In 1960, Bulova’s subsidiary introduced the Spaceview with a Tuning Fork movement, which used a ...

Watching the gears, springs, and other mechanicals working away inside a traditional watch is a thing of mesmerizing beauty. This is a key feature of the Accutron DNA, as the dial actually exposes the ...

The technology inside Accutron watches was so revolutionary when it launched in 1960 that it didn’t merely reflect the ongoing Space Race, it drove it forward. Accutron was first introduced by ...

Even in name, Accutron—which stands for “ACCUracy through elecTRONics”—is more than the sum of its parts. Introduced 61 years ago by the manufacturer Bulova as the world’s first electronic timepiece ...

In the world of watchmaking, the word “movement” contains multitudes of definitions. Beyond its most straightforward meaning (a change in position or location), the term refers to the mechanism that ...