{"id":27727,"date":"2016-03-02T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=27727"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:26:14","slug":"highly-commended-quartz-watches-of-the-year-bulova-140th-anniversary-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/highly-commended-quartz-watches-of-the-year-bulova-140th-anniversary-special-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLY COMMENDED: Quartz Watches of the Year, Bulova 140th Anniversary Special Edition  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This special edition chronograph using Bulova\u2019s excellent Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Precisionist movement celebrates the brand\u2019s 140th anniversary this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using Bulova\u2019s three-pronged quartz resonator with a frequency of 262Khz, the movement manages to be eight times more precise than standard quartz movements and allows its seconds hand to sweep around the dial rather than jump.<\/p>\n<p>The Precisionist movement also allows chronograph timing to 1\/1,000th of a second should you ever need it. The green highlights on the dial reference the colour scheme of Bulova\u2019s groundbreaking Accutron model from 1960 and the watch features a 140th Anniversary logo on the caseback.<\/p>\n<p>The watch, which is water resistant to 300m, is crafted from 316L stainless steel with curved sapphire crystal and carbon fibre dial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This special edition chronograph using Bulova\u2019s excellent Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Precisionist movement celebrates the brand\u2019s 140th anniversary this year. Using Bulova\u2019s three-pronged quartz resonator with a frequency of 262Khz, the movement manages to be eight times more precise than standard quartz movements and allows its seconds hand to sweep around the dial rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[489,1998,971,1023,7804,139,47],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=27727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}