hi!! First post. Total Newbie.

Im looking for a 1973 Speedy....this one might be close. No serial Number present. Anything else jumping out as wrong?

Thanks in advance!
Goggs


https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/283587950679

 

Please post photos, not just the links. The listing will go away eventually. What do you see that might be an issue.

 

The photos are not good, but it's a -71 and I can't see the step on the dial.

[Edit: Correction, I found a photo that definitely show a step.]

 

And you can use ilovemyspeedmaster.com to get an estimated date.

 

Bracelet and endlinks are the modern version.

kind regards Max

 

I would skip this one, personally.

Why 1973? Birth year?

 

Yes birth year...

 

I once was looking for birth year watches but didn't like the fact that I would have had to almost certainly compromise on quality unless I got lucky.

So, I started viewing birth year holistically. A watch purchased in X year was not necessarily manufactured in that year! Could have been sitting on the shelf. Heck, if my dad had purchased me a watch when I was 6 and called it my birth year I would have been none the wiser. And, let's face it, my dad DIDN'T purchase a birth year watch for me so some of the connection is tenuous at best.

TLDR I'd find the best example possible +/- 5 years. Just me!

 

I see a lot of people really into the whole birth year watch and that is perfectly fine but for me the less I have around to date myself the better I can keep my age denial going. If I did own a birth year watch I’d trade it for a newer one and make that my birth year watch