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This is a very helpful article
Thank you Bill. I saw another difference which reminds me to the original and fake Seamster 300 Casebacks. If you compare the 'A' of the genuine and the replacement caseback in your pictures you will notice, that the original has a large flat area on the top. Not so the replacement.
Best regards, Gunnar
Observations of the First Generation "MoonWatch" .
Hello everyone..... i have been looking at Speedmasters on the net lately and noticed that more " 1st Generation" Moonwatches have been poping up on the internet. The 1st generation Moonwatches have a early caseback that look like this and or marked Apoll...
Are there different...
Hi Bill, as far as I recall there is a difference in the Reference# with the replacement backs - there is one more "0" in the number: 145.0022 instead of 145.022. In one of the pictures the second part of the number is readable and it looks like "0022" -...
Your correct Erich
Hi Erich Your correct on the case ref number scheme Omega as used. I just wanted to identify a way without removing the caseback and since I do not have a large zoom hi res pic of the inside or outside of the caseback. I should have been clearer in my pos...
thanks for the info Bill, are you referring to the model used on the moon?
the reason i ask is really a pedantic one. from the books i've read by the astronauts and Omega i find it highly unlikely that a 1969 watch would have been on the moon in 1969 as the astronauts would have been issued with their watches when they joined th...
Good question... but a MoonWatch has a 861 or newer movement...
Hi G I had a long talked with Chuck (Maddox) on naming conventions years ago . There are catagories Pre-Professionals ( mostly flat lugs symertical cases does not say Professional on the dials )' Pre-Moons Professionals ( all Speedy Pros with the simple s...
an excellent way of classifying...
an excellent way of classifying them Bill. so simple and descriptive. i've probably read it on Chucks site, but my memory isnt what it was. best Graham
This is a very helpful article
Thank you Bill. I saw another difference which reminds me to the original and fake Seamster 300 Casebacks. If you compare the 'A' of the genuine and the replacement caseback in your pictures you will notice, that the original has a large flat area on the ...
