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

 

Haha! Lovely idea - I´d say the top one is pointy (-67) and the bottom one is flat (-68). Am I right?

 

Other way round

 

Damn it! I was too sure about that haha!

 

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

im actually keeping the original bracelet 1506/16 in a safe.

 

Nice... I would love to get a 1506 for my 105012 but I´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´t lose it but it sure scared the living daylights out of him

 

a complete nice set will cost you another arm.

 

Oh wow you´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

 

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.

 

105.012-63 original -unpollished

 

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’s my HF -66 105.012

 

Man....that´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´t make too many of those, did they? About 50, is that right?

 

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´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.

 

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´s posts, I´ll see if I can find them. He has a lot of posts though haha! You don´t remember by any chance in what thread you found them, do you?

 

I am secondhand,bought it in the early nineties.I didn't know that it will become a rare piece......nice watch

 

This thread is amazing, thank you for all of the contributions.

Makes me wonder if there are any completely original examples in the Omega Museum, I have never been. Does anyone know?

 

yes hf.

 

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´m now at a point where I´m not sure if it´s healthy anymore A big thanks to everybody here for that!

 

Yes, this thread has become great, so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to add another 105.012. This is a -65 with original case profiles.