Omega Schumacher Speedmaster Red

Canuck

Speedmaster reduced by my reckoning. The watch could be 25 years old, so expect little things such as you describe. Service hands, maybe? Even brand new Omegas from the Omega Boutique reportedly have infinitesimal little “flaws”. As with most other prestige brands. The eagle eye of many who post here, pick up on microscopic “flaws” on almost all brands.

padders

Not sure where you are getting your dating info from but I would suggest that watch is in fact from more like 1996 which was the year of release of that model. The difference you are seeing between the dial indices and hand lume plots is due to the way the tritium lume deteriorates differently. It is very common on Omegas from this era. If you were to swap out the hands with new ones you'd still have a mismatch as the replacements will use a brighter greeny/white compound. SL lume was introduced in 1997 hence the hard date cutoff. 55m serials are also more typically seen in the mid 90s rather than later so that too tallies with 1996 or so. I don't see anything there that makes me think the watch isn't fully original.

That looks a bit of a tired example of a sometimes troublesome model so if I were buying I'd want a service to be priced into the deal vs a mint watch. Here is the Omega page for the model showing how it looked new.

https://www.omegawatches.com/planet-omega/60th-anniversary-speedmaster/racing-1996

Canuck

In my opinion, not likely a redial, a Frankenstein (more on that later), and not an outright fake. When the topic af the Speedmaster reduced pops up, the thread tends to elicit abroad spectrum of opinions. If you are contemplating buying this watch, you might want to use the SEARCH function (magnifying glass), and read the opinions of many others on the Speedmaster reduced.

Frankenstein? Omega produced the Speedmaster reduced, so not a Frankenstein in the usual sense of the word. Though opinions of many seem to border on calling it a Frankenstein. The base movement is by Omega, but the chronograph module is a totally separate module produced by Dubois & Depraz. The reduced is a “sandwich”, with the base movement piggy-backing on the chronograph module. Most watchmakers (myself included) refuse to work on the chronograph module. So if service is required, these watches usually go to Omega for a total movement exchange?

I have a reduced, and a Speedmaster. I much prefer the Speedmaster reduced, and therein lies the variance of opinion. On the message board, you find the pro element, the anti element, and the “meh” element. The decision is yours to make. But ditch the microscope! Most watches would fail such close scrutiny!

Canuck

I don’t know about Omega prices for servicing a Speedmaster vs replacing a Speedmaster reduced. I have read that there is not a lot of difference. The service on a Speedmaster reduced results in you receiving a “recycled” reduced movement as serviced by Omega in Switzerland. Does Omega service the D & D module, or does D & D service it. That I don’t know.

padders

Actually I do that website a bit of a disservice. If you select Speedmaster you get 1999 as the answer, but Reduced models like this do not follow Speedy Moonwatch serials, they follow the mainstream series and if you select 'Non Speedmaster' it returns 1995 which is pretty damn close. Maybe they should specify that only Speedmasters using the 861/1861 movement work with that option.