... NASA Medallion. All three watches are ref. 145.022 From left to right: - „Apollo XI“ 145.022-69 from July 7, 1970 - „Straight writing“ 145.022-69 from September 23, 1971 - „No NASA“ 145.022-71 from October 14, 1971 As far as I am tracking, „Apollo XI“

I wanted to share my first arrival for this year. It started well and I\'m happy to show my Omega Speedmaster Professional 145.022-71. I didn\'t own a Speedy for well over 3 years and it feels good to be sporting on of this bad boys. Stepped dials are goi

....... Speedmaster with a "No NASA" case back. The "Salazar marks" were stamps, embossed into watch cases on watches imported into Portugal during the Salazar regime as prove that import duties had been paid. Cheers, HSTE

... dressed up for the group foto, there is a strong element of "showing off" but eh: that's part of the fun. I am glad there is a "panorama" function on the iPhone, this was the only way to capture them properly (3rd picture). They're all gone now, but I

.....turning them around, we see all three transitional case back's that Omega used between 1970 and 1972/73 to move from the hippocampus case back to the medallion case back. Below from left to right: - Omega 145.022-69 with "Apollo XI" case back from Ju

It looks like Omega experimented with the Speedmaster case-back transition from the pre-moon "Hippocampus" to the final "Medallion" version with three transitional variants: - the straight writing (Ref 145.022-69) - the straight writing - Apollo XI 1969 (

The 145.022-71 is not a really rare, scarce reference. The one you see below combines two specialties which are however fairly rare: "No NASA" case-back: the story goes that after the two versions of the "Straight writing" case-backs, Omega and NASA were

i've just checked the Omega site set up by the late Chuck Maddox, the reknowned world expert in Speedmasters, and what he states in one small section is that your caseback is the second generation of 'flight qualified' casebacks with the added 'first watc