ORIENT Vintage

FS: Vintage ORIENT.
Used. Rating 75-80%. Retro and chunky! Ticking strong.
Old Orient model. Whole Orient In-house movement made with steel. NO PLATIC part. Steel metal day and date rings AND Made in Japan, unlike current SEIKO and CITIEN with plastic components and made outside Japan.









Orient In-House Automatic 21 Jewels. Japan signed on movement.
Size is slightly bigger than a typical Seiko 5 men watch.
Proper servicing by proper watchmaker in summer 2009.
Defect: Date and Day quick set OK but normal change BOTH do NOT work.

Stamped Hour Markers. Very light sliver dial:













Date/Day: Metal Day and Date rings, not plastic like modern Seiko and Citizen.
Day and Date quick set properly. Week Day quick set by button at 2 o’clock. Day and Date Normal Change DO NOT work.
Weed Day display design in older design: Mon1, Tue2, Wed3, Thu4, Fri5, Sat6. Sunday in Red. In English and Kanji. Slow Day/Date change style from 24:00 to 02:00.
Movement: Orient In-House movement. Signed ORIENT 21J. 46941 Japan.

















Crystal: Original acrylic crystal.
Case: Width: 35mm including crown. Lug to lug: 41 mm.
Lug width: 28 mm.
Case Back: Signed Orient. Marked Water Resistant, All Stainless Steel.






























Net Price: US$39-
Shipping: US$8- by Registered Air Mal to all over the world.
5-12working days. With tracking number. Can track online via USPS, Canada Post, Australia Post, Royal Mail and post offices in Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Email: wiensiena@yahoo.com

Nifty Accutron 214 Spaceview Desktop Clock

Bulova plans to manufacture Accutron, again. The REAL Accutron watches and movements, not those with a mere 'brand'.

Reminds me of this Accutron 214 Spaceview Desktop Clock. Not for retail but as Point of Sale display and award for Accutron dealers back then. Not every Accutron dealer could get it. Hence it carries special memory and pride.














Love both movement and dial for sure. But equally love the 'box'. It represents very fine Swiss industrial engineering. Joints are almost seamless. We often overlooked the contribution and support by Switzerland's very advanced industrial engineering for modern watch manufacturing. A Swiss university, ZTH, has been pionner in this field for decades.














It was given to a friend's late father, a gorgeous watchmaker and dealer, in 1960s. He opened a watch shop in 1950s. Sold and serviced many Accutrons between 1960s and 1970s. Bulova's regional office presented this SpaceView clock to him as special award.














Boomer, another gorgous watchmaker and Accutron dealer in Indiana sicne 1973, recognised it in seconds! For full account + an orignial 1960s Accutron catalouge featuring this clock by Dr. Accutron, see the post Accutron Forum in Watch and Clock Forum:
http://watchandclockforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=1744

Last, but not least, Accutron also made its way to the Space. NASA selected Accutron for Gemini and Apollo missions. Two Accutron clocks (bigger model, I suppose), too, in the cockpit of Air Force One. Still now?