Omega prices in the late sixties!

hansaboy · Mar 16, 2023

Found this nice advertisement on another forum (and grabbed it...😲)!

And its obviously in Swedish!

Its from 1968, and showing 3 different watches:

Flightmaster
1050 Skr (about 11000 Skr/985€ todays value)

Speedmaster
765 Skr (about 8000 Skr/715€ todays value), its with a leather strap

Seamaster Cosmic
295 Skr (about 3000 Skr270€ todays value)

So with some planing back in the good old days, buying truckloads of Speedys would have been the best deal?

Well...just me being bored to hell with this lousy weather we have here!😎

Cheers!

sheepdoll · Mar 16, 2023

My time travel experiments keep failing.

I never seem to meet myself at the appointed time.

hansaboy · Mar 16, 2023

sheepdoll
My time travel experiments keep failing.

I never seem to meet myself at the appointed time.

Yepp, same here!
Tried it one time with a bottle of tequila, woke up in another country, but only a day after...😁

Spruce · Mar 16, 2023

Sadly, even if we could travel, none of us have access to vintage currency.

Couldn’t even use ApplePay or card

So, that’s another problem

Revo · Mar 16, 2023

This is the one that always makes me laugh:

I'm guessing that's, what, 1976 or '7?

Funnily enough there was one of those Seikos at a Watch & Clock Fair a couple of years ago. The chap wanted £160 for it ("rare", "early" etc etc). Speedmasters started at around 15 times that (£2,400) for tatty examples.

SC1 · Mar 16, 2023

Thanks for this absolutely fυcking depressing post

Evitzee · Mar 16, 2023

I got a Speedmaster as a wedding gift from my wife in 1973, $165 from an AD in downtown St. Louis with discount. I could have had a Rolex Daytona but it was $250 and just a bit out of our range at the time. I was just graduating from engineering school and we were getting married two weeks later, the $165 was the most she could afford. Anyway, still have the wife and the watch, so all is good.

SC1 · Mar 16, 2023

Evitzee
I got a Speedmaster as a wedding gift from my wife in 1973, $165 from an AD in downtown St. Louis with discount. I could have had a Rolex Daytona but it was $250 and just a bit out of our range at the time. I was just graduating from engineering school and we were getting married two weeks later, the $165 was the most she could afford. Anyway, still have the wife and the watch, so all is good.

Amazing. Reminds me of my dad accompanying me to get my first car as a teenager: Renault Le Car with 550 miles on the odometer and one year old, $1400.00.
He mentioned buying a fully loaded, new, Chevy Bel Air the day after getting home from Korea and the war... paid $810.00.
Adding to that, my folk's first house set them back $18,900... three bedroom/two bath with an attached garage.

Shit has definitely changed.

Annapolis · Mar 16, 2023

Back in those days they had a bin of Submariners at the local A&P for a nickel a piece.

SC1 · Mar 16, 2023

Annapolis
Back in those days they had a bin of Submariners at the local A&P for a nickel a piece.

Buy two get three free.

Annapolis · Mar 16, 2023

And waitlists were for commies!!!

spacemission · Mar 16, 2023

Evitzee
I got a Speedmaster as a wedding gift from my wife in 1973, $165 from an AD in downtown St. Louis with discount. I could have had a Rolex Daytona but it was $250 and just a bit out of our range at the time. I was just graduating from engineering school and we were getting married two weeks later, the $165 was the most she could afford. Anyway, still have the wife and the watch, so all is good.

Don't worry, omega was above rolex. Enjoy it.

Davidt · Mar 16, 2023

spacemission
Don't worry, omega was above rolex. Enjoy it.

Was?

river rat · Mar 16, 2023

Wages were less back then. I remember getting paid $1.50 a hour that was the minimum wage . Remember my first new truck I paid $4,500 out the door. Now a new truck over $30,000.

hansaboy · Mar 17, 2023

SC1
Thanks for this absolutely fυcking depressing post

Maybe I should look upp some prices for Porsche and Ferrari from the same time??😉

lucian23 · Mar 17, 2023

Regarding the topic of prices for a few decades ago inflation is the one which was not been taken in consideration.. In the sixties i think 1000 USD are about 5-6k from today..

Pastorbottle · Mar 17, 2023

Evitzee
I got a Speedmaster as a wedding gift from my wife in 1973, $165 from an AD in downtown St. Louis with discount. I could have had a Rolex Daytona but it was $250 and just a bit out of our range at the time. I was just graduating from engineering school and we were getting married two weeks later, the $165 was the most she could afford. Anyway, still have the wife and the watch, so all is good.

They don’t make wives or watches that last that well these days!

omegastar · Mar 17, 2023

Here is the price list for Rolex 1987 catalogue in Belgium. Divide the price in Belgian Franks by 40,3399 to have euros.
Actually it is not cheap at all !
Datejust 16014 : 1.856 €
Daytona 6265 : 1.438 €
Datejust 16000 : 1.395 €
Submariner 16800 : 1.651 €
Sea-Dweller 16660 : 1.868 €

spacemission · Mar 18, 2023

Davidt
Was?

Yes, omega was top. Nowadays just a fanboy would say rolex is above omega or viceversa.

SpeedyPhill · Mar 18, 2023

1967 Omega brochure... AFAIK the very first time Omega used a spaceflight-related image (artwork in this case) for their advertising.
Spanish Pesetas, Speedmaster was about US $ 125.00 while the Seamaster 300 was US $ 100.00 ( 1967, 1 US $ was 70 Ptas ).
This softcover has 16 pages and measures 21 by 14,5 centimeters. Scan of a detail on the cover is shown here... it would take Omega almost 50 years to note that both Edward White and James McDivitt each wore two Omega Speedmaster chronographs, so 4 Speedies on Gemini IV 😁
(Photo/Scan: MoonwatchUniverse)
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Omega prices in the late sixties!

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