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That Bulova wrist watch you're wearing isn't just stylish - it represents over 100 years of quality watchmaking. Whether you prefer a Bulova chronograph or a Concord ladies watch, it's important to know your timepiece history!
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The Bulova wrist watch company was established by a Bohemian immigrant named Joseph Bulova in 1875. Bulova began manufacturing watches in Woodside, New York, where the company headquarters remain to this day, in addition to Flushing.
Bulova company began creating innovative watchmaking techniques from day one, but the business really started making history in 1941, when it purchased the world's first commercial on television. The commercial aired on July 1 on New York's WNBT station immediately before a baseball game featuring the Dodgers and the Phillies. Believe it or not, the commercial cost only $4!
Four years later, the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking opened its doors. The institution was founded to train disabled WWII veterans, however its operations soon expanded to cater to a more diverse body of students.
Of course, it's impossible to mention Bulova without covering the Accutron timepieces, which hit stores in the fall of 1960. The Accutron watches featured a revolutionary technology developed by the Swiss inventor Max Hetzel, who had been working for Bulova since the late 1940s. (Hetzel is just one example of Swiss ingenuity - just look at the Swiss-born Concord Mariner series!)
Drawing its power from a unique tuning fork system, the Bulova Accutron was the world's first electronic watch. Inside the casing, a 360 hertz tuning fork sat between two electromagnet coils, which formed a single-transistor oscillator circuit. This drove the fork, which in turn powered the watch's hands and allowed the device to keep time. The original Accutron was discontinued in 1977 after over 4 million of the timepieces had been sold.
The invention of the Accutron launched Bulova not just into the national spotlight - but into space. Throughout the 1960s, Bulova competed with its rival Omega to create the "first watch on the moon." Omega won this battle, as Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin had an Omega Speedmaster Professional on his wrist when he first set foot on the moon.
But the Bulova wrist watch company also came out on top - and in space - as NASA used tuning-fork-powered Accutrons for all of its spacecraft time-keeping devices. This is because scientists were unsure how other electronic movements would fare under low gravity.
To commemorate its contribution to the space program, the Bulova wrist watch Accutron line of timepieces currently features a limited edition Astronaut watch. Only 1,000 of these watches were made, and each is individually numbered with a caseback autographed by "Buzz" Aldrin himself.
Bulova made headlines once again in 2007, when a dredging team discovered an automatic Bulova wrist watch on the floor of the Gibraltar Harbor. The watch had been lost by a sailor in 1941, and was returned to him in 2008, still ticking!
The Swap Active Watch Phone is a phone that is technologically advanced, and is also one that also happens to be a watch. It offers an impressive level of technology packed within an exceedingly small unit. The unit doubles up as both a phone and also as a fully functional mobile phone. With measurements of 65 mm x 45 mm wide, it is not bulky in any shape or form whilst at 17 mm thick it fits nicely on the wrist.
One the key elements of the handset is its integrated camera, which is in essence a snapshot style camera, that takes imagery of suitable quality to be accurately displayed. In addition the unit provides an MP4 video media player which also doubles up as a video recorder and provides suitable alternative to static imagery.
The audio player provided within this comprehensively functional unit, supports many file formats including MP3/MIDI/WAV and AAC and video versions, which tend to be MPEG 4, 3GP and MIDI format. The handset comes with both USB and Bluetooth connections, offering the ability to download and synchronise with suitably attired devices or alternatively connect through the wireless Bluetooth connection.
The watch offers an impressive 1.5 inch TFT touch screen that doubles up as both a screen for the watch itself, as well as the portal for accessing functionality. The screen is eminently colourful and displays imagery with a vibrancy and clarity that is surprising. The usual features contained within a mobile phone are contained within this wristwatch such as SMS and MMS functionality.
The phone is able to use MP3/MP4 and MIDI format ringtones, which offers the means to utilise any form of downloaded music file, as a ringtone. low price wrist watch The phones internal memory consists of 128 MB of integrated flash memory, with the option of a 2 GB SD card which makes use of the integrated microSD card slot.
As with many handsets on the market currently, this unit provides a variety of profiles such as flight mode, vibration, indoor and meeting personalisation options and also includes a useful key lock facility, to ensure that no extraneous keystrokes are accidentally pressed. The watch phone has an impressive standby time of 100 hours, whilst it also provides 150 to 180 minutes of useful talk time, this is all due to the 350 mAh battery which is provided with the unit.
The Swap Active Watch Phone offers technological wizardry within the compact size of a wristwatch. The future of wearable handsets or mobile phones is a debatable one, however this unit provides an insight into how this could be achieved. It provides a fully functional mobile phone that is small enough to be as inconspicuous as a watch.