Accutron and Bulova Revive Space Age Designs

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

Accutron and Bulova observe their shared past with NASA and the U.S. Space Program by launching the Accutron Astronaut and Bulova Lunar Pilot, each inspired by vintage Space Age designs.

The caller Accutron Astronaut

NASA worked closely with Accutron to devise timekeepers for watches, instrumental panel clocks, and interior mechanisms integral to the galore missions into abstraction starting successful the mid-1950s done the 1970s.

Similarly, Bulova watches were worn by astronauts and pilots successful the aforesaid era. On August 2, 1971, Apollo 15’s ngo commandant made lunar past portion wearing a Bulova chronograph.

An Accutron and NASA 60-minute timer from the 1960s abstraction program.

Accutron Astronaut

Referencing the 1968 “T” mentation of its Astronaut model, Accutron present relaunches the exemplary with an update that specifically highlights the watch’s distinctive day/night bezel. The caller 41mm steel-cased Accutron Astronaut is the archetypal re-edition successful what Accutron says volition beryllium “an breathtaking caller bid of Accutron Astronaut timepieces.”

The caller exemplary offers a vintage-perfect treble container sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, but updates the question with a Sellita SW330 GMT automatic caliber that, successful different update, is partially exposed via an accumulation lawsuit back.

Accutron fits the ticker with a ‘bullet’ alloy bracelet. The Accutron Astronaut is simply a constricted variation of 300 pieces. Price: $3,500.

Bulova Lunar Pilot 

With 2 caller Lunar Pilot watches, Bulova expands its popular Archive Series with genuine vintage-sized replicas of the Bulova ticker worn connected the Moon. You mightiness callback the archetypal (and precise successful) ticker successful the series, the 50th Anniversary Lunar Pilot Limited Edition, a 45mm exemplary which Bulova successful 2021 celebrated the fiftieth day of the Apollo 15 mission.

The caller Bulova Lunar Pilot, with achromatic dial.

For the latest model, the lawsuit size remains amazingly contemporary, measuring a afloat 43.5mm successful diameter. 

Bulova is offering the caller ticker with either a achromatic dial (like the original) oregon a sporty two-tone bluish and achromatic chronograph dial.

The caller Bulova Lunar Pilot, with bluish and achromatic dial.

Bulova fits some models the brand’s proprietary NP20 High Precision Quartz (HPQ) chronograph question close to 1/20th second.

Both watches are disposable connected alloy bracelets and each besides arrives with a matching leather strap.

Bulova connects the black-dialed variation with a achromatic leather strap and offers a bluish leather strap with the two-tone chronograph. Both straps are attached to the wrist with latched outpouring bars for interchangeability with the bracelet arsenic desired. Price: $895.