You did what? You opened a family owned, vintage, 105.012-66 Omega Speedmaster Professional with a fakkin hammer and screw driver! 'Fakkin hells bells' Mate! It aint a can of emulsion paint! I've just nearly choked on my jaffa cake! Lovely watch by the way! My Dad left me a 105.012-65. Here he is with it around 1970 or so. (It's been well documented on this site) but I promised him on his death bed I would make a point of not walloping it with carpentry tools. Anyway... hope it goes well with your Speedmaster service. Be nice to see it when it's been serviced.
Very interesting thread and great looking watch. A lot of good information has already been given to you and I can only add a little. My Speedmaster is a 105-003-65 and was produced on the 21st June 1967. However due to the vagaries of Omega production at the time the movement serial number is six hundred later than yours. Your extract when it arrives will only show the country it was originally delivered to and is unlikely to provide any bracelet information, copy of mine below. If I was you and with that history I’d be getting it serviced, wearing it and passing it on as a family piece. I have my dad’s old Universal which is worth very little to anyone else but a great deal to me but that’s just me, we each have our own priorities, Whatever you decide to do I hope you enjoy it while you have it.
Depending on the era they had NASA serial numbers engraved in various places. Some had a unique us made case.
Loose the ill fitting strap ! Nice watch when its serviced by anyone competant ( NOT OMEGA) it will be so devalued and nice looking you will not recognise it and it will loose the association with your dad. That's important as this piece will always be " his" and remind you of him . I wish you the best of luck, you have already been lucky, hang on to it.
Nice watch! I have a very similar story. Mine has not beens serviced in decades. I'm in NC, US. and am very interested in where you will service yours. I'm sitting on mine it seems the less I do to the watch the more interesting it.
How long did it take to get the extract from the archive? I have heard many different answers. 6-8 weeks 3-4 months even a year so any first hand knowledge would be greatly appreciated. I Might look into a place called the Swiss watch expo in Atlanta GA. I think that's the name of it. One guy on this forum recommended that to me.
I think there are very few places in the USA that you may fully trust to properly service a watch like a vintage Speedmaster. I live in the Atlanta area, too, and other than the experience by @bama2141 , I've never heard of servicing a vintage watch at Swiss Watch Expo in our city. When my Speedmaster needed a service, I heeded the advice of the majority of members on this forum, and sent mine to Al ( @Archer ) in Canada, and he did a wonderful job at a very reasonable price. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to talk about it. Although I wouldn't recommend them, if you end up using the place here in Atlanta, I'd definitely like to hear how it turns out.
Is there a dust cover for the movement at all? Dont see it in any of the images and without it the movement and dial will flop about on the crown stem..
Maybe the Omega gods could send us down some commandments for us cub watch finders. thou shalt not try to open the case with crossed screw drivers. Thou shall not wind a dry watch, things like that, if thats even a watch sin I don't know.
no worries I done the same and worse I fear. But we did manage to identify and save a very cool watch. Chin up you did great