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26 January 2023 - New Speedmaster - Rife Speculation
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Annapolis
·There's probably nothing to this, but one thing I did notice: the URL for the video and image (e.g. https://www.omegawatches.com/media/wysiwyg/img-teaser-January-large.jpg) includes the acronym wysiwyg: "what you see is what you get."
This could be nothing more than the name of a generic folder in the omegawatches.com directory. But while we're rife with speculation, let's make something out of that! So we have a Speedmaster, an innovation in hairspring-ing, and "what you see is what you get." How do these clues fit together...
This could be nothing more than the name of a generic folder in the omegawatches.com directory. But while we're rife with speculation, let's make something out of that! So we have a Speedmaster, an innovation in hairspring-ing, and "what you see is what you get." How do these clues fit together...
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pdxleaf
·There's probably nothing to this, but one thing I did notice: the URL for the video and image (e.g. https://www.omegawatches.com/media/wysiwyg/img-teaser-January-large.jpg) includes the acronym wysiwyg: "what you see is what you get."
This could be nothing more than the name of a generic folder in the omegawatches.com directory. But while we're rife with speculation, let's make something out of that! So we have a Speedmaster, an innovation in hairspring-ing, and "what you see is what you get." How do these clues fit together...
A window on the dial face of the Speedmaster that shows part of the escapement.
Not that I think they'd do it, but that's the only thing i could come up with.
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SC1
·I'm starting to get rife with not giving a shit...
unless it's a 3861 dropped into 39.7mm case or a chronometer certified 321 that's not hand-assembled, comes in around 6-8k, offered in hesalite and is abundantly sourceable & therefore the Grey Bois can go eat a fresh shit sandwich.
unless it's a 3861 dropped into 39.7mm case or a chronometer certified 321 that's not hand-assembled, comes in around 6-8k, offered in hesalite and is abundantly sourceable & therefore the Grey Bois can go eat a fresh shit sandwich.
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Zanzibar
·It's just a friggin' new haispring capable of sustaining mars magnetic field. Hop,here ya go you have another mechanical speedy mars certified.
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ninman
·I'm starting to get rife with not giving a shit...
unless it's a 3861 dropped into 39.7mm case or a chronometer certified 321 that's not hand-assembled, comes in around 6-8k, offered in hesalite and is abundantly sourceable & therefore the Grey Bois can go eat a fresh shit sandwich.
Too much copium is bad for you.
Seriously though, a mass produced 321 in a traditional Speedmaster case would make me sell my 3861 immediately to buy one.
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PandaSPUR
·NFC chip to make payments. similar to SwatchPAY. Also, it can be something similar to the Apple AirTag to find objects, integrated into the watch, and thus know where it is in case of theft. can you imagine?
Yeaaa. Unless they also stick a battery in the watch, a passive NFC tag isnt going to work while its inside a metal watch.
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MTROIS
·New hairspring, resistant to infinite magnetism (but of course, that is not the only part of the movement that would need to be improved to claim that the watch is impervious to magnetic fields!)… but especially, ensuring a +/- 1 sec accuracy over a month. 👍
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·Seriously though, a mass produced 321 in a traditional Speedmaster case would make me sell my 3861 immediately to buy one.
Hell to the Yes.
Sadly I don't think they'd do it... would lessen the niche of the current Ed and the current Ed owners would start a war and then tribalism sets in and then well, it's the end of humanity.
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PandaSPUR
·The 861, 1861, 3861 already fill the role of a mass produced 321. It wouldn't make sense for Omega to make that movement less meaningful by turning it into another mass produced caliber but with lower technical specs.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerThe 861, 1861, 3861 already fill the role of a mass produced 321. It wouldn't make sense for Omega to make that movement less meaningful by turning it into another mass produced caliber but with lower technical specs.
The 321 is a massed produced movement, currently made in small quantities...😀
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Duckie
·I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's it's a Speedy Pro the likes of which has never been contemplated before.
It will basically look like the current watch but exclusively Saphire sandwich with a hot roded 3861 movement with new materials utilized in critical parts that's designed and tested to reliably function on the surface of Mars and our Moon.
Sort of the equivalent to an SR71 back in the day.
The caseback will be incribed "flight qualified for the moon and Mars EVA"
It makes sense seeing as they've already paved the way with Artemis with a view to using the moon as a staging point to go to Mars.
It will become known in history as the pre-Moon to Mars watch for the very earliest production👍
It will basically look like the current watch but exclusively Saphire sandwich with a hot roded 3861 movement with new materials utilized in critical parts that's designed and tested to reliably function on the surface of Mars and our Moon.
Sort of the equivalent to an SR71 back in the day.
The caseback will be incribed "flight qualified for the moon and Mars EVA"
It makes sense seeing as they've already paved the way with Artemis with a view to using the moon as a staging point to go to Mars.
It will become known in history as the pre-Moon to Mars watch for the very earliest production👍
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PandaSPUR
·The 321 is a massed produced movement, currently made in small quantities...😀
Sure, typical technically correct response. I should have said "turning it back into another mass produced caliber"
Better?
EDIT: Back to speculations though, I'd bet its not moonwatch related at all. The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards a refresh of the ceramic speedys which are overdue for an update.
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MTROIS
·I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's it's a Speedy Pro the likes of which has never been contemplated before.
It will basically look like the current watch but exclusively Saphire sandwich with a hot roded 3861 movement with new materials utilized in critical parts that's designed and tested to reliably function on the surface of Mars and our Moon.
Sort of the equivalent to an SR71 back in the day.
The caseback will be incribed "flight qualified for the moon and Mars EVA"
It makes sense seeing as they've already paved the way with Artemis with a view to using the moon as a staging point to go to Mars.
It will become known in history as the pre-Moon to Mars watch for the very earliest production👍
So how much more extreme are conditions on the surface of Mars? Dramatic temp changes that no human could withstand!? I guess, as long as the Speedy would keep ticking accurately, all would be well!! 😁
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFInteresting ideas… but just to be clear, the current Speedy Pro does already work on the surface of the moon.
So how much more extreme are conditions on the surface of Mars? Dramatic temp changes that no human could withstand!? I guess, as long as the Speedy would keep ticking accurately, all would be well!! 😁
https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/watches/seamaster/aqua-terra-150m/ultra-light/product
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PandaSPUR
·Interesting ideas… but just to be clear, the current Speedy Pro does already work on the surface of the moon.
So how much more extreme are conditions on the surface of Mars? Dramatic temp changes that no human could withstand!? I guess, as long as the Speedy would keep ticking accurately, all would be well!! 😁
Omega already released a watch for Mars anyways.
Omega does have a high tech “ultra-light” version of the Aqua Terra designed with better ergonomics for golfers that weighs in at only 55 grams and is manual wind. They’ve never really gone all out in making an extreme Speedmaster save for the X-33
https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/watches/seamaster/aqua-terra-150m/ultra-light/product
I tried one of those on at my local OB, amazing watch. I was very tempted to buy it but while the tech was amazing, the aesthetics didnt really appeal to me.
Its also pretty expensive (nearly 50k USD, sheesh), and that quote in the Esquire article said this would be a huge value.. gotta be something else.
The teasers definitely look like a new spring.. but what more can they do with new spring materials? A stiffer mainspring that can store much more energy in the same length of spring? Something to make the oscillation of the hairspring more consistent and help with overall accuracy? I dont even know if either of those guesses makes sense.
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Omarrye
·Stainless steel Speedmaster Skeleton
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