Watches From The Year : 1958

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We all have some sort of interest and/or personal link to a specific year. Might be your birth year, the year you got engaged/married, got a child, or the year where happened an event that is somehow special to you.

Besides your special event, there is no doubt that lots of different watches were produced that year.

I often see people asking for help to :

- find a specific watch model from a specific year
- assess the variety of watches produced on a specific year

The purpose of this thread is to log photographs and details of different watches from the year 1958 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1958
- if you don't have any evidence to claim the year (extract from archives or sales papers), please do mention #estimated
- if you own evidences to claim the year, please do mention #confirmed and please elaborate on evidences available (extract from archives or sales papers) posting evidences is not mandatory
- it is obvious that a watch can be produced on a specific date confirmed by an extract from archives, or sold on a specific date confirmed by sales papers. To simplify, both are admitted here, please do elaborate on your references
- commenting is obviously allowed and encouraged, OF etiquette highly recommended

Let's make of this thread an EPIC collection of watches produced or sold in 1958 !
 
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Let me start with this Breitling 1191 with an interesting "Speedmaster" dial



#confirmed from 1958 by the extract from Breitling Archives
 
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Hard to find a nice affordable birth year watch from 1958 when you look for one the last few years the cool ones they want to much money. But with box and papers think I did OK on this one.
 
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Early Enicar Sherpa Dive dated by inside-caseback inscription.

 
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Omega Seamaster 2846 2848

1958 inferred from large caseback medallion, widely understood to have been produced only in 1958 then discontinued. Powered by Cal 501, whose 16.5 mio serial would not be inconsistent with that year.

Dark blue leather strap is recent (probably dozenth) replacement - I wear this watch a lot, regardless of its provenance or its birth year: it's just such a good old buddy.