Apollo XI 1980 white gold dial mod, aka "Silver Speedy" thread

Skyblue44

Hello everyone.

I haven't posted much on the forum so far, but I am as much of an Omega fan (all Speedmaster so far), and I guess this is my way of saying hello to you.

I have this standard 3570.50 Moonwatch modded with a white gold dial that I call the "Silver Speedy". I added black baton hands to it, slightly different from the original black "stick hands".

This was after I had read this posting (http://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/bu...s-422278.html#/topics/422278?page=1&_k=64w52s) on Watchuseek and thought it was really beautiful, so when the chance came, I went ahead with the conversion.

My understanding based on Moonwatch Only is that the original model, reference BC 345.0802 in white gold, had only 20 examples made.

Do any of you have the original reference or one modded with this dial? Although this watch is not "original", I really think it is as beautiful a Speedmaster Pro as any other, combining elements of sporty and dressy just right.

Perhaps due to the small number of examples made, I don't see this mod as often as the Mitsukoshi or Japan Racing dial as much, and would like to hear from you.

Please share your pictures, strap combinations, or any interesting experiences with it!

Here is mine to start:

Together with my Italian Albino mod:

BenjaminT

Congratulations to this wonderful mod. Although I am usually not in favour of mods - this white gold - some people say rhodium - dial is simply gorgeous.

However I have one question to the experts regardig this dial:
I have seen three different versions of nearly the same dial.
- Yours is what I call "low swiss-made, long index". It is on sale from an ebay seller at the moment as well.
- Then there is the "low swiss-made, short index" version with the indexes on the subdials not extending to the flat bottom part of the subdials, like
- And finally there is one version with "high swiss-made, short index"
like this:


In another forum I have seen this version also in a steel cased speedy.

So my question is: Why would one (omega) have 3 version of virtually the same dial for a watch with a production run of 20 pieceses?

Looking forward to any explanations
Benjamin

JerH64

BenjaminT

Congratulations to this wonderful mod. Although I am usually not in favour of mods - this white gold - some people say rhodium - dial is simply gorgeous.

However I have one question to the experts regardig this dial:
I have seen three different versions of nearly the same dial.
- Yours is what I call "low swiss-made, long index". It is on sale from an ebay seller at the moment as well.
- Then there is the "low swiss-made, short index" version with the indexes on the subdials not extending to the flat bottom part of the subdials, like
- And finally there is one version with "high swiss-made, short index"
like this:


In another forum I have seen this version also in a steel cased speedy.

So my question is: Why would one (omega) have 3 version of virtually the same dial for a watch with a production run of 20 pieceses?

Looking forward to any explanations
Benjamin

Mike4881

I completed my Apollo dial swap recently. Loving the silver dial and decided to go with an orange second sweep hand to give it a little color. It looks great on a bracelet but my personal fav is a simple black nylon strap with white stitching...

JerH64

machamp6650

Nice to see this thread resurrected after 2 years!

While the opportunity's there, I had a query for anyone with a rhodium dial mod - has anyone tried or handled both versions with the stick hands (like original Apollo XI) and the baton hands (I believe like the unrestricted sales version)? What is your preference?

I've currently got a rhodium dial and am looking into options for hands. I think I like the stick hands better (lack of lume goes better with the dial plots) but I've never seen either example in real life!