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Considering buying this Ed White 105.003 Speedmaster

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Samp Samp
Update: I purchased the watch and will make sure to post pics as soon as I receive it if anyone is interested!

Congrats! Enjoy it and post some cool pics!
 
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Might be too late since you purchased it but I read recently the movement can only be serviced in Bienne. Hope you were aware of this. there are a few places in the USA (San Diego?) that can service it but they are at the mercy of open market parts….
This is my understanding…
 
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bombaywalla bombaywalla
Might be too late since you purchased it but I read recently the movement can only be serviced in Bienne. Hope you were aware of this. there are a few places in the USA (San Diego?) that can service it but they are at the mercy of open market parts….
This is my understanding…
Thank you for your message!

I am aware of potential difficulties with servicing 321 movements. However, I have a watchmaker where I live with much experience in servicing these. This particular example was serviced by Omega, which is a plus in my book, since I know that there hopefully will not be a need of replacing parts for quite a while.
 
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Congrats and you did well. As a recent owner of a 321 Ed white from 66 (I made a thread about it here) I agree that servicing it is not easy.

The vintage watchmaker that I know who I took it to simply recommended I make the watch waterproof by changing the gaskets and pressure testing it but failed to remove the pushers. My only option now seems to be to approach Omega (I know it will be sent to Bienne and I've had an excellent experience with that approach with my vintage 2505 from the 40's but that has no tritium and nothing was replaced, with Omega agreeing fully with all my requests). I'm trying to avoid going that route for now...
 
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As everyone here in Switzerland in the meantime knows, there is a high risk that Omega will replace
the tritium dial and the hands with service parts, if the watch's owner doesn't specify that he wants
to keep the original parts...
 
140dave
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Congrats! Yes the dial looks much nicer than the original photos you posted. Nice pickup.
 
Aludic
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Well, based on these pictures only one response seems appropriate; ‘well played, Sir, well played’… 😉
 
fizz
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Looks really good and you did well. There is a hint of brown on the dials and that bezel is super.

Enjoy it!!
 
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