Birth year watches
Watches made in 1973.
Seiko released a six digit LCD quartz watch in 1973, and the digital watch stopped being an experiment. Numbers replaced hands on a great many wrists over the next few years.
For the Swiss, 1973 was the year the ground moved. A mechanical watch made that year was competing, for the first time, against something cheaper that kept better time.
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c.1974
Seiko 11-3490
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- Strap
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£95
c.1972
Seiko 17-0240
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£165
c.1974
Citizen 74-7491
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£150
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c.1974
Seiko 6119-5401
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- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£300Box
c.1972
Seiko 2205-0240-P
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- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£120
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c.1975
Seiko 2205-0250
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- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£160Box
c.1975
Seiko 6119-5490
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- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£110
c.1971
Seiko 2206-0090
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£140
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.