I managed to make an important step to complete my personal must-have list in collecting vintage Speedmasters with this pristine ST345.0809 Speedmaster moonphase from 1985 with cal. 866. No more than 1300 pieces left the factory in Bienne and in those days they are almost all in the hands of collectors around the globe. This makes it pretty hard to get one. Luckily a very nice collector sold me his piece. This watch is more than only a highly collectible Speedmaster for any serious vintage Speedy collector, it is simply very beautiful and a pleasure to wear it on the wrist. The 4th totalisator on top makes it elegant, especially with the blue colour of the sky and the golden stars and moon.
Congratulations ! Birth year reference for me and definitively one of my favourites Now you need a nice 1450 bracelet
Very, very nice. Are the hands service replacements do you think? - for them to be more 'mellow' is the only thing I think that would enhance this beauty.
Congrats you've topped a very nice and sought after piece. However not the rarest (no smiling moon) this one is highly desirable indeed. A 345.0808 from the eighties and a Holy Graal and you have the magic triplette
indeed, or the 1479 ... well, I will see. From aesthetical point of view on the leather strap is very nice but for completing the package it would be great of course! @@davy26: Hard to tell, because all the luminous material is still very greenish and fresh, no discolorations yet to be noticed. So I suppose these are the genuine hands.
Understood - it's just that I thought the plots nicely 'yellowed'. Anyway, just points of fine detail - congratulations on acquiring one of the few non-basic Moonwatch variants that I find aesthetically successful.
wow...thats just a really nice Speedy...congrats Most of this Watches are delivered with a 1447/805 which is much harder to find than a 1450/808
Well, there are some different informations which is the earlier strap. Moonwatch only says first came the 1447/505 combo and later the 1450/808. Marc Richon from Omega says just the other way round Who is right. My example should be one of the first as it dates, according to the extract of archives, november 1985. It came with an advertising catalogue showing the watch with the 1450/808.
from what I see I think the 1447 was first and then replaced by the 1450. If it was the other way arround then the Grail 376.0822 should have the 1447 and not the 1450 as the Grail was introduced 2 years after the 345.0809 but anyway its a killer watch, irrelevant if its on a 1447/1450 or 1479
and this is what the catalogue looks like. Pretty much 80ies style in supergloss. I like the "Weltraumpräzission auf Erden" advert. They have never been humble, that is for sure
It must not have a movement since there is no picture of it! I see caseback pics, inside caseback pics but no movement pics. Is it ugly or what?
haha, no, it is a beautiful cal. 866 with a nice extract of the archives, so no later franken built-together with rhodium movement from Lemania as they are in the market. @T<25: It looks prettty much like the 861, so yes, I guess it is that.
