What is the correct bezel for this watch?

 

There are several correct bezel for this ref.
Dot Over Ninety if tachymeter version, but also decimal. Pulsometer? I don't know. Experts here on OF will probably confirm that or not.

Just one more thing.
Usually, it's good here to start with a "hi OF", or something like that. Maybe old-fashioned. But a polite and efficient way to start gathering informations on this wonderful forum.

 

exactly!

 

Sorry about that. New to the space
I appreciate the feedback and thanks who all that reply !

 

I respectfully disagree. There is only one truly correct bezel for any of the three 105.003 variants IMO. MWO call it B1 Dot diagonal 70, but DO90 also works as a name. It's the Base 500 bezel Omega used on both straight lug and Pro Speedies from circa 1962 to 1969 You see the others from time to time but the number of those fitted actually in period by the factory and not later are vanishingly small. The Tachy bezel isn't the most useful design of bezel, but it is the one most true to the original watch IMO. When you see an Ed White at auction with a Deci or whatever bezel it has usually been added by the (dealer) seller because the DO90 was lost or damaged beyond repair.

Here I respectfully agree!

 

Thank you!

 

Not neccessary ..... I bought a few Speedies with the old Pulsometer scale from Medical Doctors ..... Because that made the Speedy Tax Deductible for medical Doctors as a medical Tool....

 

Ok I’ll concede the point about tax benefits is interesting but the thing about the alternative bezels is that there are maybe 10x more out there today it seems than ever left the factory. It’s like with black dial dress watches, care must be taken since it’s route one for the lazy restorer.

I must say I don’t find the original pulsometer bezel all that nice to look at though 1/2 of it is blank! Maybe they should have used 30 pulsations like they have on the recent straight lug re-edition.

 

And I'm respectfully holding my ground. If pulso and decimal were available for the 2998, why should it be different for the next generations?...


(By the way.. . look at this lovely price... approx 60USD...!)

 

I see your point, but that of course is an assumption, not evidence.

 

That is not an assumption. It is a fact. Every Speedmaster could be ordered with a different Bezel. Just ask the Factory/Museum.

 

Okay then, let me re-phrase: I wasn’t intending to say his point was incorrect; I was saying that making the statement that it is a fact based on the knowledge that the previous generation had those bezel options, and thus the next iteration would, is not evidence that the next generation DID.

 

You're right, under a pure mathematical logical view. According an historical point of view, I think you're wrong when you say there is a unique "correct" bezel for a 105003. And MWO confirms that. This idea is unacceptable for you?

 

I don’t want to go down a cut-and-paste bickering rabbit hole with you, but please show me where I’ve said there is “a unique bezel for a 105003”?

In fact, based on what has been presented above, I have learned that there were other bezel options available. That’s what this forum is for, right, to get our points of view altered based on information from others who know more than we do in a particular area?

 

I'm pleased to show that

I translated these words in "unique correct bezel", but English is not my mother language, so I may surely learn something else here...
Time to quit now... Let's go on another thread

 

Hi, following on the above conversation. Do you guys know if the Speedmaster Mark IV can be fitted with an (original, or brand authentic) pulsometer bezel. I’m not a medical professional, but need to measure my heart rate on a regular base and really don’t like any smartwatches nor health trackers.

 

Welcome...

Perhaps open a new thread on this topic