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Is this the seventies-est watch on the internet?

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Here’s my entry all lit up with funky black light:

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Without the disco lights, a Gruen with cal. 12 inside.

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Groovy, man!
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gatorcpa gatorcpa
Here’s my entry all lit up with funky black light:

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Without the disco lights, a Gruen with cal. 12 inside.

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Groovy, man!
gatorcpa
This says it all for me In regard to that one

 
Annapolis
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Oh man, I want to stare at that lit-up watch while listening to the Scarlet>Fire from Cornell '77. 😀
 
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I narrowly missed out on picking up this doozie in an auction this week - for the sake of another £50 it could have been mine ;-)

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A 1974-78 Spaceman Audacieuse, with AS automatic movement and asymetric bracelet. Freaky man!
More on http://www.crazywatches.pl/spaceman-audacieuse-lemarquand-1974

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Gotta be careful with those, I was tempted by one a couple of years ago before reading there are alot of fakes of this exact model.
 
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Yup- same font
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Same font as the TRS-80 Basic programming book that is in my office that I can't access at the moment.
 
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I hit the dance floor with this ORIS Chronoris from the 70s

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Still searching the missing bezel, but that is another part of the Story ...
 
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Same font as the TRS-80 Basic programming book that is in my office that I can't access at the moment.

ha! I think this wins for the most seventies comment in this thread.
 
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ha! I think this wins for the most seventies comment in this thread.

And now for the most 90s comment in this thread. I bought the book in the mid 90s to improve my line-numbered basic programming skills when I got a job re-writing old code to be Y2K compliant.
 
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I hit the dance floor with this ORIS Chronoris from the 70s

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Still searching the missing bezel, but that is another part of the Story ...

These old racing watches remind me of one of my favorite arcade games.

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Please tell me that’s yours. And that it still boots up (after a few minutes’ wait).
Sadly no, web-grab pic. But we actually had one at my last job (2012) to read archived floppies- and it still worked.
 
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You just gave me flashbacks to a Commodore I had as a kid. What a machine that was.
 
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You just gave me flashbacks to a Commodore I had as a kid. What a machine that was.

I have a C64c, several drives, an x64 cable that lets me connect a PC to a 1541, and a device made by a guy in Turkey that allows the Commodore to connect to a PC and mount d64 disk images on the hard drive, and of course a few original joysticks.

I bought all the gear pre eBay for a few dollars in thrift stores.
 
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I think the Lip Mach 2000 is the " seventiest " of them all.

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The Cernos was the seventiest watch of my collection 😀

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Those are both phenomenal. The former has been remade in a modern quartz, I believe.
 
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Those are both phenomenal. The former has been remade in a modern quartz, I believe.

Indeed, the modern ones are equipped with a Ronda 5021-D movement.
 
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Some super examples already posted, but my idea of an archetypal Seventies watch/strap remains this Lanco, and I've been seeking one without success for years:
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