BBC Top Gear Magazine

WAY BACK WHEN

You don’t have to remember the Seventies to know they were rubbish. The decade was one long avocado-bathroomed nightmare with nothing to look forward to but power cuts and Morris Marinas. But it is also the decade that gave us Rocky, David Bowie and the Lamborghini Countach. Can it really have been so bad?

For the watch industry the answer is

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