Birth year watches
Watches made in 1970.
Hamilton showed the Pulsar in 1970, a watch with no hands at all, just a red LED display that lit up when you pressed a button. It looked like the future and cost about as much as a small car.
The Swiss industry meanwhile was at its largest ever, making mechanical watches at full tilt, with very little idea how quickly that was about to change.
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c.1968
Longines 7271
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- Strap
- Condition
£375
c.1971
Seiko 17-0240
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£175
c.1968
Seiko 1520-367A
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£245
1970s
Bulova Accutron
- Movement
- Strap
- Condition
£180
1970s
Rhino -
- Movement
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- Condition
£125
1970s
Sekonda -
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£150
1970s
Unbranded Led Silver
- Movement
- Strap
£150
1970s
Chronex Led Gold
- Movement
- Strap
- Condition
£250
Further reading
Buying guide · 9 min readSeiko 5: the world's most sensible automatic watchThe 5 is a promise Seiko made in 1963, and almost nothing explains what it actually was. Here are the five attributes, the calibres worth knowing, and what to check before buying one.Buying guide · 9 min readLED, LCD and ana-digi: a guide to vintage digital watchesRed LED displays, always-on LCDs and the ana-digi watches that put hands and a screen on the same dial. What each era was, what goes wrong with them, and what they cost now.Guide · 6 min readHow to date a vintage watchSerial numbers, reference numbers, movement calibres and design clues: a practical guide to working out exactly when a vintage watch was made.