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 1974 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1974
- 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 1974 !

 

A birthyear watch, just arrived today...Rolex Air-King ref. 5500 Automatic, cal 1530 purchased from an honorable OF member! Pardon the 'setting sun slightly out of focus iPhone' picture.

 

Speedmaster MK II, Racing-dial. Production August 1974, Sold May 1976, you can choose. Both #confirmed
Purchased with Box and Papers from the initial owner from Haarlem/NL, a beautiful worn piece that has everything vintage is about for me.

 

Omega speedmaster 145.022-71 #confirmed, extract of archives, April 1974.
Hamilton 6bb RAF #confirmed, caseback markings, 1974.
Benrus GG-W-114 #confirmed, caseback markings, Dec 1974.

 

I missed this thread, was hoping to see more from '74(my birth year) but I did already discover it was a very quiet year compared to the preceding 70's. Most 70's classic trend to date to '72 I find.

Anyway here are my two.


This one is #estimated as I'm too tight to pay for the now poor version of extract. I think this particular version was '74, if you Google the model number(can't remember it off top of my head) the omega website shows it with 1974 too.


This one was issued in '74 #confirmed by case back numbers.