The 1970s were renowned for their difficulty when it comes to the traditional Swiss made replica watches industry, being thoroughly disrupted by the introduction of the Seiko Astron just before the turn of the decade. Picking up where the 1960s left off, the 1970s continued the boom, with the advent of video games and cassettes, and two little-known companies by the name of Microsoft and Apple being founded. American and Japanese watch companies ushered in new technologies such as LED and LCD, but it was also a time during which numerous established Swiss manufacturers died out. Only the most well-established few weathered the storm of the quartz crisis, but would go on to redefine luxury watchmaking forever.
Replica Omega Seamaster 600 PloProf Watches
You thought developments in the dive watch space were limited to just the 1950s? Think again – as Omega did with the Seamaster 600 Plongeur Professionnel, famously dubbed the PloProf. Mind you, Omega already had the Seamaster 300 in its catalogue, a watch more than capable of being submerged for prolonged periods. Conceived by Omega’s Marine Unit in the late 1960s, the high quality fake Omega Seamaster 600 watches was developed alongside the larger Seamaster 1000, though only the former was attributed the PloProf name. Aesthetics clearly weren’t the primary consideration, as Omega sought to create a watch that could be used for saturation diving at extreme depths. Through the brand’s testing, the AAA UK copy watches failed at well past a kilometre due to the deformation of the crystal. The monobloc case was a rarity at the time, as was the utilitarian bezel locking system by means of the red button, but the real advance was in the use of Uranus steel, today known as 904L. Omega’s modern PloProf is titanium, a material that was in such short supply in the 1970s that the US secretly had to buy it from the Russians to build the iconic SR71 Blackbird. All in the name of progress, hey?
Fake Rolex Explorer II ref. 1655 Watches
Certain top replica watches are designed to fulfil a unique purpose, and the connection between tool and job makes perfect sense. When Rolex released the Explorer II reference 1655 in 1971, the brand claimed that this was a watch made for spelunking, hence the bright orange hand that would tell you the time in a 24-hour format when spending long periods underground. While this may seem a bit far-fetched today, the 1970s were also a time when recreational caving became much more popular thanks to technological developments that made it safer for those less experienced. With its orange hand fixed to the hour hand and a non-rotating bezel, you couldn’t actually track another time zone with the 1655, though this is something luxury Rolex fake watches UK would address later. Now highly sought-after by collectors as the Explorer Freccione, the 1655 is also known as the Steve McQueen, though it’s not confirmed that the King of Cool ever actually wore one.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak ref. 5402ST Replica Watches
If the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak was the first watch you thought of when clicking on this article, I’m guessing you’ll be in the majority. It is, after all, the perfect China fake watches that redefined what luxury Swiss watchmaking meant, and kickstarted the Genta era of watch design. The 5402ST “Jumbo” launched in 1972, with a total of 4,288 original examples produced during its 15-year production run. It reportedly took Gérald Genta a single night to come up with the design, the initial brief for high-end steel UK cheap super clone watches coming from the SSIH (later ASUAG, now Swatch Group), given to Genta at 16:00 the night before Baselworld 1970. Audemars Piguet built much of its future on the success of this model and its subsequent developments, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
Patek Philippe Nautilus ref. 3700/1A Fake Watches
The Swiss movements replica Patek Philippe Nautilus watches doubled down on the idea that was started by the Royal Oak four years prior. The first reference, the 1976 3700/1A, was also a Genta design, taking for inspiration the portholes of ships rather than diving helmets, giving the Nautilus its iconic “ears”. Just like the Royal Oak, it featured an ultra-thin automatic calibre derived from JLC’s legendary 920, but surrounded with softer case lines, most notably in the bezel and rounded case links. It was just as expensive as its Le Brassus competitor, with Patek being famously uncoy about the whole thing, advertising it with the tagline: “One of the world’s costliest copy watches UK site is made of steel.” Nice.
