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 1979 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1979
- 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 1979 !

 

Let me start with this Omega Speedmaster LCD Alaska IV



#estimated as the extract for an unnumbered one wasn't possible to obtain

 

Birth year for me, 145.022 -78 #confirmed with the EFA.

 

#estimated made around 1979 from serial and movement calibre, purchased by first and only owner 1982.

 

#estimated 1979, due to known issue dates, and lead time to produce and deliver before issuing...

 

#estimated 1979 as red on various internet topics. The watch provenance remains kind of a mystery though. Below is from a Bulova company representative

« Taking a look at the images you provided I can tell you one thing that the
timepiece was marketed for Europe and the Asia. The markings on the back
are totally different than the United States. During the period of the
late 70's until the mid 90'd Bulova leased the name to several companies
that made watch with the Bulova name on the dial and we never here in the US
had the information available. Our Hong Kong office did have data on these
models until just recently when that information was discarded. Sorry I can
not be more of a help »

 

1979 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Ref. 1505 in 34mm. #Confirmed with serial.