<VV> Watches (a little more Corvair)

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Engineers like shiney things!
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Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- Gary & Susan Lowell <sglowell10 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> 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.
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