Omega Speedmaster Series 1/12
Team, Allow me to start detailing my previous post ("A nice surprise ...") by starting with a mysterious one. Vintage watches, in special Omega, always brings to us surprises and debate. The one that I present today follows this rule by having a strange d...
these dials were ..
made for the Japanese market .. also with " banana " lugs some years after ( early 70s ) . this older version is much rarer than the other one .
Now we are talking ...
Marcelo, Any idea about why they wrote "Mark II"? I have the (unproven, of course) theory that the name "Mark II" was used later without any relation to this one. Ciao, Nilo
about movement numbers ...
also many SM 300 with mov. number in the same range have been produced in 1967 according to Omega certificates.
Vintage Omegas are fun ...
Because of those small details. For the record, I believe that Omega, among all manufacturers, is the one that has better documentation, by far. Cheers, Nilo
Very nice watch Nilo, congratulations!
I really love that "racing" dial and the mouvement look pretty neat too. Cheers Francois from Down Under
First time I see such a dial in a 105-003. I would be very curious to see what...
Omega will say, in the certificate! Best, Nicolas
Same here ...
If this watch was presented to me, without any info, I never considered it because: a) The chronograph seconds, by my book, don't match the hour/min hands (it's a 321, this chrono hand looks the one used by 861 ones). b) Mark II in 1965!!! Let's wait and ...
What is the diameter of this dial ?
I have a "normal" mk2 dial that I can measure, it is 32mm across if I remeber well.
If not mistaken, this could be the rarest . . .
. . . of the rare. My recollection is there's only a handful of these in existence. I'm checking with Bill to corroborate . . .
nice and rare, but
isn't the second's chrono hand not supposed to match the orange dial? Z'
