As a man, who appreciate the finer aspects of luxury, I am always and constantly asked what my favorite is to look at design company. If friends, relatives or acquaintances by chance, there is the question I get asked often than any other. And my answer every time, is exactly the same.
The Bulova watch.
People find my answer Ironically, in some way. This is because when they ask me to look for a designer who is the Lord Concord Impresario Watch withWhite dial of a watch or Cartier Ballon Bleu, I usually can recite every detail of the timepiece. But if you ask me what is my absolute favorite, my choice very top of the watch I wear when I could just wear a watch would be the rest of my life, my answer is short, sweet and delivered without a shed of doubt. And if they ask, why is my explanation just as fast:
Why were the first.
Yes, it was a Bulova watch from first timer I've ever wrapped mywrist (that didn't cost and feature Mickey Mouse on the cover). But that isn't what I'm referring to when I tell people that the Bulova wrist watch collection is and always will remain my top choice.
Simply put, the Bulova wrist watch was the first with... well, everything.
In 1912, Bulova became the first company to build a watchmaking plant that was solely dedicated to watch component production.
In 1919, when pocket watches began to diminish in popularity, Bulova became the first to introduct a full line of jeweled men's wrist watches.
In 1924, the ladies Bulova wrist watch line is introduced; the first ever line of luxury timepieces designed for women.
Two years later in 1926, Bulova had the first ever radio advertisement.
In 1928, Bulova introduced us to the first clock radio. And while this technically isn't a Bulvoa wrist watch first, it still is another example of Bulova leading the charge.
Have you gotten the point, or should I keep going? In 1931, Bulova became the first company to mass-produce electric clocks. That same year they became the first luxury watch designers to spend over million in marketing annually. In 1941, Bulova broadcast the first American television advertisement during a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1968 they completed construction on the Bulova Satellite Clock, which was the first ever public clock that maintained correct time from satellites orbiting in space.
And as if all of that wasn't enough, the Bulova watch company was actually used as part of NASAs Apollo 11, which of course was the first man-piloted shuttle to land on the moon. That's right: Bulova was the first on the radio, first on the TV, and first on the Moon.
And of course, first in my opinion.
