Watches From The Year : 1971

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 1971 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1971
- 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 1971 !

Let me start with this Omega Flightmaster 145.013



#confirmed from 1971 by the extract from Omega Archives

Speedmaster 145.022-69 SW

#confirmed by Omega Archive Extract (April 15th, 1971)

I just got back my Dads 1970s cosmic 2000 diver from service. He gifted it to me last year and I sent it to Omega for a full restore. He either bought it in 1971 or 1972...(‘71 would be a birth year watch for me). If anyone knows how to confirm this please let me know!! They unfortunately didn’t send back any historical records with the service

#estimated based on serial number

to my untrained eye it looks more like 80's watch.

1971 Gallet Multichron Pilot - #confirmed by original owner as purchased in 1971, on the original Speidel bracelet he wore it on.
1971 Seiko 6139-6002 "blue Pogue" Chronograph - #confirmed by serial number.

Speedmaster Non-NASA 145-022-71
#confirmed by extract.

yay ! With a rare transitional dial !! 🥰

Monaco 1133B McQueen, 1971

Constellation
Extract from the Archives
#comfirmed
January 13, 1971