I sent my friend an email about it because Peter Fonda wears a Rolex: I just watched the movie Easy Rider, which I’d not seen before. It came out a few years before I was born. Anyway, I know the movie is lauded as this great, cinematic masterpiece or what have you, but I didn’t really care for it. A pivotal point in the plotline is when Peter Fonda’s character Captain America discards his wristwatch and throws it in the dirt. Honestly, I hadn’t even noticed he was wearing a watch because I was concentrating more on the dialogue and the visual of his whole American motif. Anyway, the watch he discards is apparently a Timex, but that is a goof because the watch he wears in a couple of scenes before that is a solid gold GMT-Master with a Black Dial (Ref# 1675?) Looked like Root Beer, but it must have been a Pepsi. I don’t think they made Root Beers back then. Did they? Anyway, the movie was in production in 1968, so I’ll guess it is from 67 or 68. Kind of unrealistic to me. Hopper and Fonda are a couple of hippie/biker hybrids who seem to eschew everything for the open road and it seems unlikely that Fonda’s Captain America would have ever taken timekeeping so seriously at any time in hie life or had the means to have opted for a solid gold Rolex—-although his back story is never revealed , so it isn’t impossible. Maybe he was a rich kid who was rebelling. He appears to be in his late 20’s in the movie. I have heard stories of guys who bought Rolex back in that era and while the prices were not as inflated as they are now (even proportionately), it wasn’t exactly like buying a Timex, either. Servicemen overseas in Europe would buy them and it wouldn’t exactly be a casual purchase. I think it would be 2-3 months of an enlisted man’s wages back then.