BULOVA

Bulova Technical Documentation states quite clearly that the watch was developed entirely as a consumer item, with no funding from any outside source. Still, it might be fair enough to imagine that the potential military applications hadn't gone unnoticed by Bulova management. The CEO of Bulova at the time was Omar Bradley, 5 Star General, US Army, Retired. All research undertaken was performed by Bulova engineers in their own labs... The first protype watches were produced in Switzerland in 1955. In 1959, Max Hetzel and William Bennett developed the Bulova Accutron at the Bulova Headquarters in New York, based on Hetzel's previous research in Switzerland... The first Bulova Accutrons were offered for sale to the public in November 1960. These were the Accutron Model 214.

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