OMEGA Speedmaster 311.33.42.50.01.001........Thoughts?????

I see a black column wheel on that caliber?... What's the origin?

This is a manual wind version of the Cal. 3313, so this one is a 3201. Based on an F. Piguet chronograph movement.

In this version, instead of the usual polished steel column wheel, it has another version - regular version is about $30, and this one is about 3 times that...

Didn't that LE have an enamel dial? I imagine it is lovely in the flesh.

I can see why the Moonsnobs pass this one by, but taken in isolation it is a nice piece with a lot going for it. If I had one criticism it is the the movement is in conception at least just the 3313 hobbled by removing the auto winding mechanism which seems a little perverse and retrograde, but when seen objectively the 3201 is more impressive than the 321 or 1861 on many levels (apart from not having been to the Moon!). Note Omega is now moving to a free sprung balance and coaxial escapement for the 3861, which is now chronometer rated, well guess what, these had them 15 years ago. A column wheel too, something Omega currently reserve for their mega money 321 models.

I don't expect any of the 33X3 models will be setting auction records anytime soon though, firstly because they lack the Moon connection and also because of an ill conceived smear campaign that existed when these were current. The teething troubles that afflicted these have for the most part been designed and serviced out though it can't be denied that they had problems back in the day.

The so-called Grail has jumped in value though and that uses a much more agricultural auto solution than the Broad Arrow series so perhaps there will be a day when these are seen for their true worth. Perhaps the LE above will be the first to be shown some love.

I have a close cousin of OP watch, also released I believe in 2007 and seen below. It gets a lot of wear.

ps if you want to invite members in to chat about this ref, I would think a title change to something like 'Speedy Enamel Dial 50th Anni LE' might be more enticing than the current stream of numbers!

pps here is an earlier thread discussing these:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/spe...namel-dial-50th-anniversary-from-2007.109162/

This might be the only co-axial Omega that doesn't say co-axial on the dial...

Anyone know of another?

modern CK859?

Looks like it!

Yep. Look about 9 posts back 😉

What was the original price for this one ?

Lovely watch ~!

This clocks in at 12.9mm ? how did Omega manage that? 😵‍💫 and for what reason haven't they repeated it?

Because they no longer widely use this movement, whose ancestor, when first introduced as the F Piguet 1185 was I believe the world’s thinnest automatic chronograph. Partly due to an unjust smear campaign this family never got the respect it deserved and Omega chose to replace it with the 8500 based 9300 chrono movement which is about 2mm deeper and needs a boat anchor case to house it. Thanks Chuck. Thanks also to the other idiot whose name I can’t be bothered to remember.

As I said earlier in the thread, these had teething troubles when introduced which were finally ironed out. Rather like nearly every other Omega movement launched since 1999 in fact.

To be fair, Omega now have a range of smaller manual wind chronos which use this trick and have gained thinness at the expense of the 9300’s rotor. These are the 2 counter Chronoscopes and are pretty thin, around the same as the watch above so in a sense they have repeated it!