The 1970s was a golden age for creative industrial design, with watchmaking being particularly fertile ground for innovation.

Oversized cases, bright colors, strange complications — the confluence of the hippie movement with new sporting and leisure activities resulted in specialist timepieces whose fun-loving designs are finding new life today as beloved vintage goods. 

This Regate from Wakmann perfectly encapsulates the ‘70s watchmaking spirit: Referred to as the ‘Clint Eastwood,’ as that beloved actor wore one in the 1995 adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County, it’s housed in a 44mm, gold-plated cushion case with a magnified acrylic crystal, barrel pushers, an unsigned time-setting crown, and an offset, 10 o’clock crown to control the inner, rotating bezel. 

Equipped with a handsome, luminous champagne dial, it features a baton handset with fluorescent central minute and 12-hour counter hands, a dual-register chronograph layout, a date window at 3 o’clock, a 1/5th-seconds track, and an inner, rotating bezel with multiple timing and date scales — including a countdown scale for regatta timing! Powered by the automatic Landeron Calibre 1341 central-minute chronograph movement, it’s one of funkiest, most feature-laden watches we’ve had the pleasure of offering in quite some time. 

Looking for something that’s going to stand out from the crowd? 

Then this is your watch!