Birth year watches
Watches made in 1975.
By 1975 American electronics firms had pushed LED watches down to pocket money prices, and the bottom fell out of the digital market almost as fast as it had appeared. Fortunes were made and lost inside three years.
Mechanical watches from 1975 were made by companies under real pressure, which is part of why the survivors are worth having. They had to be good.
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55 watchesSee everything from the 1970s
c.1977
Seiko 2906-0020
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£165
Box
c.1973
Certina Club 2000
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£420Box
c.1977
Seiko 2906-0850
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£125
1970s
Bulova Accutron
- Movement
- Strap
- Condition
£180
1970s
Rhino -
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- 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.