Watches From The Year : 1970

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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 1970 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1970
- 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 1970 !
 
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Let me start with this Omega Speedmaster 145.022-69



#confirmed from 1970 by the extract from Omega Archives
 
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The Heuer 77xx references were made for about one year (despite the Zodiac signature it was made by Heuer) and this would be manufactured 1970 + maybe a couple of months into 1969 or 1971. I know no more of its history until it came to me from the USA a few years ago.

 
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1970 Bulova “Sea King”, confirmed by manufacture’s letter-number production date code on case back, “N0” - “N” for the decade of the 1970s, “0” designating the year “1970”.
 
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Dodane type 21 issued to the French Air Force with a Valjoux 235 movement (flyback).
#estimated from 1970 based on the first FG "Fin de Garantie" engraved on the caseback - 8.4.72. Meaning first service to be done in 72 so 2 years after the issuance date.
Unfortunately Dodane lost all its archives 🙁

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Posts deleted... sorry I red watches of the 70’s instead of watch from 1970 :whipped:
 
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Omega Speedmaster 145.022-69




#confirmed
from1970 by the extract from Omega Archives
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Omega Speedmaster 145.022-69


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from1970
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Omega Speedmaster 145.022-69
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Aouch... Suddenly hungry... 😎