<VV> Watches (a little more Corvair)

[Gary & Susan Lowell]

I am struck by how many of us have Bulova Accutron's. My Spaceview  
was a graduation gift in 1969 when I got my engineering degree and  
has been rebuilt once. I wear it to this day and I can't tell you the  
number of conversations it has started over the years.
The seemingly high number of Bulova Accutron's in our group drew me  
to a couple of interesting conclusions:
1. We all are of about the same age (old farts!) so that the Accutron  
was our then-new symbol of our generations great new optimism -  
engineering could change anything - even the way we kept time.
2. The Accutron was a fresh idea - a new way to look at the problem  
of keeping time - much like the Corvair was a fresh look at efficient  
and fun transportation. Both were to be overtaken in the marketplace  
by less complicated, less daring, less sophisticated and less  
expensive products that the marketplace long ago deemed as "acceptable".
Come to think of it I like my Accutron and my Corvair for very  
similar reasons. They are both different from what the masses  
accepted, they are both represent products that pushed their  
respective engineering envelopes and they both had companies that  
were willing to take a risk to bring these envelope-pushing product  
to the market.
Any thoughts?
Gary Lowell
65 Corsa Convert
Detroit.