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·Hello all,
Was hoping to tap into the collective knowledge to see if you could help me help a family friend identity the precise model of watch.
My friend's late husband was an avid photographer, who, over the decades, took over 10,000 photos with his various Hasselblad cameras. I have been slowly but surely scanning these negatives to make a digital record of his work. In one of the photos where the late husband appears, I saw him wearing a definite chronograph, but could not make out what it was. I asked my friend if she knew what watches her husband had. Not only did she know, she still had them.
The one in the photo was a Speedmaster. The photo was taken in 1973, so I know the watch dates from before that time. Here is what I saw when I looked at the watch (my poor photos attached, I apologize for the quality and the dust on the watch. I should have brushed it off a bit before photographing. It has been sitting in a box in a closet for at least 15 years):
(1) A step dial with painted logo (I tried to get a close up showing the step, it is more obvious in person);
(2) A DON bezel showing honest wear.
(3) A square end chrono hand.
(4) "stick" hands.
(5) hippocampus on back
(6) A 1039/516 bracelet (with another, sealed NOS 1039/516 bracelet)
(7) I am not *quite* sure how to tell if the crown or pushers are service items. My friend says her husband had the watch serviced in San Francisco over the years, but she doesn't recall anything ever being "broken" on it.
I don't have the tool to open the back (nor would I feel comfortable doing so even if I did) so I can't check the serial number. But based on the above, my somewhat novice guess from reading Speedmaster 101 is that its probably a 145.022-69 (specifically because of the DON bezel + painted logo).
Does that seem accurate?
She thinks she has the box and paperwork somewhere (which would obviously help), but the only documentation she was able to find was a small red pamphlet with "operating instructions."
Thank you in advance for checking my work!
Was hoping to tap into the collective knowledge to see if you could help me help a family friend identity the precise model of watch.
My friend's late husband was an avid photographer, who, over the decades, took over 10,000 photos with his various Hasselblad cameras. I have been slowly but surely scanning these negatives to make a digital record of his work. In one of the photos where the late husband appears, I saw him wearing a definite chronograph, but could not make out what it was. I asked my friend if she knew what watches her husband had. Not only did she know, she still had them.
The one in the photo was a Speedmaster. The photo was taken in 1973, so I know the watch dates from before that time. Here is what I saw when I looked at the watch (my poor photos attached, I apologize for the quality and the dust on the watch. I should have brushed it off a bit before photographing. It has been sitting in a box in a closet for at least 15 years):
(1) A step dial with painted logo (I tried to get a close up showing the step, it is more obvious in person);
(2) A DON bezel showing honest wear.
(3) A square end chrono hand.
(4) "stick" hands.
(5) hippocampus on back
(6) A 1039/516 bracelet (with another, sealed NOS 1039/516 bracelet)
(7) I am not *quite* sure how to tell if the crown or pushers are service items. My friend says her husband had the watch serviced in San Francisco over the years, but she doesn't recall anything ever being "broken" on it.
I don't have the tool to open the back (nor would I feel comfortable doing so even if I did) so I can't check the serial number. But based on the above, my somewhat novice guess from reading Speedmaster 101 is that its probably a 145.022-69 (specifically because of the DON bezel + painted logo).
Does that seem accurate?
She thinks she has the box and paperwork somewhere (which would obviously help), but the only documentation she was able to find was a small red pamphlet with "operating instructions."
Thank you in advance for checking my work!
