Advice please-Omega Speedmaster Professional-Is the price right?

gbesq

Question: which reference is this? If it's a 1995 Speedy, I would think that it would be a 3590.50, but the bracelet looks wrong for that reference. A 3590.50 would normally have a 1479 bracelet with 812 end links. The 1479 is fully brushed and does not have the polished links flanking the center link on this watch. Also, the clasp on the 1479 would have the Omega symbol inside a square and the text would read Speedmaster, not Speedmaster Professional. In any event, yours is a nice watch and the price sounds reasonable to me for a mid-90's Speedy. This is what a 3590.50 should look like:
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Thanks very much for the details, gbesq. This is 3590.50. And you are right. I don't think the one I posted is a 1995 model. Especially with serial no 4836xxx, it would be a 97 or 98 model with an 1861 movement. Also, as you said, the 95 models should have a 1479 bracelet and this is 1499.

Kiwibloke

Hi from a fellow Kiwi. And, yes - very difficult to find locally. That said, there was a 1996 transitional with 861 movement, 1479 bracelet with 812 ELs on TradeMe a month or so back - went for NZD7,250 from memory.

I am no Speedy aficionado (altho have a couple) - the dial, hands and lume are really nice but the lugs look like they might have been polished? Not a major but unpolished always preferred... anyway, good luck!

gbesq

Could be a transitional model. That would explain the tritium dial but with a later 1861 movement, bracelet and corresponding serial number.

rootbeer7

I have a 1997 tritium dial which is exactly that.