Remember that you can easily establish whether its beat is 5/s (321) or 6/s (861) if you don't have a timegrapher. Just take a slow-mow video and see whether the second hand (or the chrono hand when the stopwatch is running) ticks 5 or 6 times per second!
Ah! It’s an 80’ speedmaster with a 145.022-68 transitional dial then! No matter what, absolute score. you could part it out and get a hansom profit, or keep a great watch with cool story.
So if this is a transitional dial on a 861, have the dial feet been shortened? That would affect resale value I would guess.
I will either restore it and keep this one or sell it and fund my new grail, a broad arrow Speedy with silver bezel and maybe something else.
You should make a profit by selling the dial/hands and buying 80s tritium dials/ hands. Even after servicing it, you will have got an incredible bargain.
Do you think the hands are original to the movement or the dial? If they are correct to the movement, I'd probably just replace chrono hand.
