Bulova Accuquartz
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Bulova Accuquartz
The 224 Accuquartz by Bulova was their first inhouse "quartz" watch based on their last tuning fork 218 movement.
After the initial limited Beta21-Accuquartz batch, that sold only in 1971 in large solid 18K gold cases (100g), Bulova quit cooperation with CEH and decided to continue on their own in the mass-market Quartz race. The race in the field of research was pretty much lost and legend has it that Bulova's management didn't even consider Quartz to be a threat (like most traditional manufacturers in those days that went bankrupt). So in order to cut costs and speed up the invention process they revitalized the old 218 tuning fork calibre and added a few minor modifications with small chip and 32.768Hz quartz on top.
