I am selling my Speedy. It is in very nice condition and runs great.
I have installed the correct pusher and crown since I posted her a few months back seeking help
https://omegaforums.net/threads/parts-help-for-my-speedmaster-2998-5.47801/
Case is good. Caseback has a very nice inscription from a father to his son on December 7 1962.
Dial and hands are very nice and as far as I can tell original.
Movement number is 18946947 which maybe just a little late for a 5 from various reference sources, but a number of experts are very comfortable that it is original to this watch. If you have any doubts, so be it.
Pictures are an integral part of the description.
Price is $18,000 paid via bank wire or check, no PayPal. If you need references, I have been a Heuer collector for over 10 years.....check On the Dash.
I will also be posting my white dialed 2990-1 Ranchero tomorrow.

Thanks,
Brook Tolman
College Station, TX
USA

 

Awesome dial (tropical too??)and hands.

 

Very nice Brook. Good luck with the sale!

 

OHPF

 

Thanks to buyer! I can now banish this one from my dreams.

 

I wonder, if there's any Dec. 7th significance to this watch? Was either at Pearl Harbor?

 

I am relisting this 2998-5 as the original buyer asked to return it because he believes the hands to have been relumed.
Apparently under UV light the hands do not glow.....I took it back immediately in September, as I want satisfied buyers. Please take this into account.
I kept it off the market, but have decided to part with it now.
Price remains the same and is firm.
The dial does look somewhat tropical to me, but you judge for yourself if it is or is not. Too many watches out there are being sold as tropical .
Also, I tried to contact David St. Clair a few months ago, as he is/was living in FL. I did not get a response, so cannot tell you anymore about the engravings on the caseback.

 

That is a strange complaint, IMO. I'd be willing to bet a lot of Radium/early Tritium hands do not glow/charge under UV light, especially after something like 55 years. Some lume is just well and truly dead due to the expiration of the phosphors. Additionally hands and dials were manufactured by different entities and with differing lume compounds so there are bound to be variations between them.
Also it makes me quite itchy when people try to define serial numbers so strictly. In my experience there is a bit of play on either side for any given model serial number range (especially sub-iterations like the 2998). This one seems quite close & with the Google I was able to find an (unverified) 19mil version. So really who can say with any kind of black & white accuracy? I'm not really even sure that Omega delineates "2998-x" on their Archive papers or if they do that they aren't just taking that from owner-supplied information.
In any event good on you for laying it all out with such candor and letting the buyer decide with all the cards on the table & eyes wide open.
GLWTS,
T.

 

Aggree... I Especially noted that tropical dial ( or on the way of tropicalisation) tend to be phosphorus dead faster than others... Just an observations. My tropical ed white wich was obviously not relumed was completely lume dead .



Anyway, very nice watch GLWS

 

Added some more dial and hand pics.

 

Hands relumed or not, that’s a bad ass watch!

 

Anyone on the fence about this watch GET OFF OF IT TODAY rather than tomorrow. Today (December 7th) is your chance to take it full circle with an OHPF, and at least give half the inscription some personal meaning.

Yes, you are worth it.

 

Reduced to $17,500

 

$17,300

 

Bump

 

FYI: I've had great transactions with Brook in the past (on a different forum) and have no reservations about recommending him as an honorable seller.

And that is one hell of a nice Speedy...

 

Happy New Year, and thanks Doc !!

 

You too Brook!

 

OHPF, THANKS TS