Has anybody ever seen an unpolished Speedy 105012?

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My -67 has pointy bottom, my -68 has flat bottom. However, the profiles as seen from sides/top on them both are 95% the same in my picture where they are lying on top of each other. Here is a nice game : guess which is which from that picture 馃榾
 
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Haha! Lovely idea - I麓d say the top one is pointy (-67) and the bottom one is flat (-68). Am I right?
 
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Haha! Lovely idea - I麓d say the top one is pointy (-67) and the bottom one is flat (-68). Am I right?

Other way round 馃憤
 
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Lovely piece! Is that a JB Champion Bracelet?

No. just a generic brand. hardly i can source a jb champion. but still looks good on cb. thanks.馃槈

im actually keeping the original bracelet 1506/16 in a safe.
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No. just a generic brand. hardly i can source a jb champion. but still looks good on cb. thanks.馃槈

im actually keeping the original bracelet 1506/16 in a safe.
Nice... I would love to get a 1506 for my 105012 but I麓m scared it might break and I lose my watch. I know a guy who had that happen to him while wearing his Daytona 6265. He didn麓t lose it but it sure scared the living daylights out of him
 
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Nice... I would love to get a 1506 for my 105012 but I麓m scared it might break and I lose my watch. I know a guy who had that happen to him while wearing his Daytona 6265. He didn麓t lose it but it sure scared the living daylights out of him

a complete nice set will cost you another arm.馃槈
 
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a complete nice set will cost you another arm.馃槈
Oh wow you麓re right. I expected it to be around the ballpark of a 1039 but I was sorely mistaken there haha! I mean you could literally buy another Speedmaster for that money
 
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Hey @eugeneandresson,
I麓m not sure they are the same. If you look at the bottom of the lugs on a 105012-66 HF, the lugs are pointy on the bottom:

With the Ref. 145012 there seems to be some variation going from pointy bottom to flat bottom:

My first instinct was that the lugs were just polished but I don麓t think anybody would polish the bottom of the lugs. Would be great if somebody with more knowledge of that could chime in here!
Nobody?
 
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Nobody?


I think i posted this topic before. but allow me to repeat that there are 2 features or variations that distinctly differentiate the cb lugs from the lugs of hf speedy cases. cb lugs does not have only facets on top of the lugs, but also flatter tip on the lower end, not sharp or non-pointed. i dont know the reason for the redesign, but probably it has to do with safety on the suit.

 
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I think i posted this topic before. but allow me to repeat that there are 2 features or variations that distinctly differentiate the cb lugs from the lugs of hf speedy cases. cb lugs does not have only facets on top of the lugs, but also flatter tip on the lower end, not sharp or non-pointed. i dont know the reason for the redesign, but probably it has to do with safety on the suit.

These differences in cases you also get comparing HF cases only. There are two mainly different cases of HF for the Speedmaster around 1968 - 1969. @ndgal has written about this in earlier posts and he has some really nice HF cases to show. Here鈥檚 my HF -66 105.012
 
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105.012-63 original -unpollished
Man....that麓s a seriously cool watch. May I ask where and when you got it? It certainly looks like it has a history behind it. They didn麓t make too many of those, did they? About 50, is that right?
 
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I think i posted this topic before. but allow me to repeat that there are 2 features or variations that distinctly differentiate the cb lugs from the lugs of hf speedy cases. cb lugs does not have only facets on top of the lugs, but also flatter tip on the lower end, not sharp or non-pointed. i dont know the reason for the redesign, but probably it has to do with safety on the suit.

Yes, the CB cases are easily distinguishable from the HF ones. I was refering to the difference in case shapes from the early asymmetric cases manufactured by HF (10512 and 145012) because they were produced by the same company in a short time span and I麓d just like to know how many variations of HF cases there are within the 105012 and 145012 production run.
Thank you for confirming my suspicion about the CB cases though.
 
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These differences in cases you also get comparing HF cases only. There are two mainly different cases of HF for the Speedmaster around 1968 - 1969. @ndgal has written about this in earlier posts and he has some really nice HF cases to show. Here鈥檚 my HF -66 105.012
That lug is just insane. How is that watch over 50 years old?! Did you find it in a time capsule 50m under the ground? Incredible.
Thanks for the tip about @ndgal麓s posts, I麓ll see if I can find them. He has a lot of posts though haha! You don麓t remember by any chance in what thread you found them, do you?
 
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Man....that麓s a seriously cool watch. May I ask where and when you got it? It certainly looks like it has a history behind it. They didn麓t make too many of those, did they? About 50, is that right?
I am secondhand,bought it in the early nineties.I didn't know that it will become a rare piece......nice watch
 
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This thread is amazing, thank you for all of the contributions.馃憤馃憤

Makes me wonder if there are any completely original examples in the Omega Museum, I have never been. Does anyone know?
 
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This thread is amazing, thank you for all of the contributions.馃憤馃憤
Amazing thread, I totally agree! Love how people here are willing to share their knowledge and their timepieces with other enthusiasts! I kind of lost my passion a bit for my Speedmaster after I bought my JLC Deep Sea Alarm. Then I joined this forum and after a little more than a month I got totally (re-)infected by the passion and love that all the people here have for these watches , and I麓m now at a point where I麓m not sure if it麓s healthy anymore 馃榿 A big thanks to everybody here for that!
 
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Yes, this thread has become great, so I thought it wouldn鈥檛 hurt to add another 105.012. This is a -65 with original case profiles.