Watches From The Year : 1985

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 1985 owned by members of the OF Community.

Rules for posting

- watches from all brands are allowed, as long as they are from the year 1985
- 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 1985 !

Let me start with this Omega Speedmaster 345.0808 (1st gen)



#confirmed from 1985 by the extract from Omega Archives

My 145.022 85 with long S/R and short tail Q. Confirmed(?) by ilovemyspeedmaster to being March of 85

..and now for something completely different 😀
5513 Transitional Submariner, first generation White gold dials but still with Plexi.
Bought 2017 with a last minute offer on Ebay to the seller in Houston, TX. This one was on Ebay for weeks, no one cared, pictures where okay, but not great...good enough to let me assume it'll very likely look way better than..and ho rigt I was 😀 This one has become my favourite, a "if I had only one watch"-piece.
#estimated A low 91xxx Serial number puts it in 1985 or early 1986, depending on the source consulted. If only Rolex would be a tad more open to collectors, just a tad..

🙄

You know that'd be my birth year, don't you? 😗

Now I do, we would need Rolex to firmly confirm though 😀