Best ever, Dream come true - 321 105012-66 ¿ best astronaut watch ?

ricardorio · Jul 9, 2014

Dear Friends, today after 25 years looking for it, I got it.

Speedmaster 321 105012-66 serial number 24.956.xxx YES ... unless thousand watches of these astronauts: Schweickart (Apollo 9) Slayton (Apollo Soyuz) – Gordon (Apollo - ) – Gibson (Skylab – SL4)- Bean (Apollo 12) Borman (Apollo 8) all of them 24.957.xxx / (Nasa archives)

And the same reference and year of many others ...Cunningham (Apollo 7) – Conrad ( Apollo 12) Carr ((Skylab SL4) Young (Apollo 10) Cernan (Apollo 10) Armstrong (Apollo 11) 24.002.xxx
Dream come true . . . The circle is complete…

ricardorio · Jul 9, 2014

speedy4ever · Jul 9, 2014

Hmm unfortunately, bezel, pushers and chrono second hand are not that of a 105.012. Most problematic is pushers, which are a key feature of the 105.012.
But still a nice model.

Darlinboy · Jul 9, 2014

Having one of that serial range is pretty cool, congrats! I'd be very happy with it at a fair price.👍

If you're a stickler (and many here are) the correct parts can be sourced, with some patience and cost.

Either way, enjoy that classic Speedy! 😎

dsio · Jul 9, 2014

Congrats on your new Speedy! All the parts mentioned above can be sourced and replaced over time to bring that 105.012 to its original configuration again but its a great daily wearer as is.

ock2915 · Jul 10, 2014

Congratulations , nice piece

ricardorio · Jul 10, 2014

Thank you very much dear friends, certenly yesterday was a perfect day for me.

Varasc · Jul 10, 2014

Enjoy it, Ricardo!

dsio · Jul 10, 2014

Haha good luck against Germany, how good was it watching that game with Brazil the other day

g-boac · Jul 10, 2014

speedy4ever
Hmm unfortunately, bezel, pushers and chrono second hand are not that of a 105.012. Most problematic is pushers, which are a key feature of the 105.012.
But still a nice model.

Question - how could the wrong pushers be installed in this case? 105.012-66 cases require the shorter, drive-in pushers; even if they are replaced, the new production Omega drive-in pushers (which have a different P/N from the screw-in pushers) are shorter, as the original drive-in pushers were.

So I'm curious how the taller screw-in pushers can be (improperly) installed into a -66 case. Any insight - simply from an education perspective - would be appreciated!

Thanks!
Mark

dsio · Jul 11, 2014

AFAIK there are both screw in and press in pushers for the 105.012-66 depending on the case maker

Davidt · Jul 11, 2014

The caseback looks like it has a HF stamp. Was it not only the CB made cases that has the shorter, friction fit pushers?

ricardorio · Jul 18, 2014

speedy4ever
Hmm unfortunately, bezel, pushers and chrono second hand are not that of a 105.012. Most problematic is pushers, which are a key feature of the 105.012.
But still a nice model.

Dear friend, I found the pusher´s on ebay,

Can you help me with the other parts? (Just posting some photos as reference)

Thank you very much, Ricardo