Birth year watches
Watches made in 1988.
Seiko launched Kinetic in 1988, a quartz watch wound by the movement of your arm with no battery to replace. It was the most elegant answer anyone found to the complaint that quartz watches run down.
1988 sits in the comfortable part of the decade for buyers now. The watches are recent enough to be sound and old enough to be properly vintage.
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Made in 1988
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Could be a 1988
141 watchesSee everything from the 1980s
c.1990
Lorus Y131-5260
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£55
c.1986
Seiko 2P20-5470
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£150
c.1989
Orient J90806-40
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£85
1980s
Gucci 2305L
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£220
1980s
Raymond Weil 9517
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£220
Sale −15%1980s
Favre-Leuba 394
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£200£170
1980s
Tissot J126/226K
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£125
Box
1980s
Tissot Elecronic Crown
- Movement
- Case size
- Strap
- Condition
£150Box
Further reading
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.History · 6 min readThe quartz revolution: why 1970s watches matterThe 1970s is the most consequential decade in watchmaking history, and arguably the most misunderstood. The 'quartz crisis' is only part of the story.