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Omega Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary in Steel - Expectations

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So I guess Omega are cool with you giving us this 'inside' info then??

Others have let the cat out of the bag long before I did...apparently OB staff were letting people see these details weeks ago...

Evitzee Evitzee
There are details available on the internal Omega website used by AD's and OB's, what is coming is NOT speculation. I stood over the shoulder of the staff at an OB last month and saw the details, including the pictogram card, but obviously no pics yet. The reference number is set and has been stated previously in this thread, it will be a 6969 piece edition, the number picked for obvious reasons. It will have 'moonshine' bezel and Ceragold insert. That is a fact. There will be some gold on the dial and a special plaque but no one knows what the dial will look like exactly. Pushers and crown are steel. The back of the watch will have a commemorative seal of some sort. The bracelet has a unique ref. number and is expected to match the design of the special moonshine model previously announced, but not confirmed. It will be all steel. The movement will be the 3861 with silicon hairspring and co-axial escapement.
 
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is it possible that the 6969 will be a combination of two tone and all steel by then?
 
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Sooo my call, about 18 months ago about the moon foot print may be a reality
🍿
 
gyromiterob
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I get a notification every time someone posts to this thread and every time I hope it's a picture of the official product. I'm a glutton for punishment. (Also dying to see it!)
 
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Hey guys, new here. I walked into the OB at Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan to inquire. I told the sales manager about how I had purchased my FOiS, which I was wearing, at the midtown OB. She told me I could put down the full amount for a deposit on the Apollo 11 50th anniversary Speedy, and that she had recently seen there were only 80 slots left.

I mulled it over a week and called again last Thursday to see if there were still slots. She looked it up and said 32. I put my deposit down yesterday (4/20).

Since the deposit is fully refundable I figure it's worth floating the money for a few weeks to see what we get. Excited to separate the rumors from the truth!
 
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cmenscher cmenscher
Hey guys, new here. I walked into the OB at Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan to inquire. I told the sales manager about how I had purchased my FOiS, which I was wearing, at the midtown OB. She told me I could put down the full amount for a deposit on the Apollo 11 50th anniversary Speedy, and that she had recently seen there were only 80 slots left.

I mulled it over a week and called again last Thursday to see if there were still slots. She looked it up and said 32. I put my deposit down yesterday (4/20).

Since the deposit is fully refundable I figure it's worth floating the money for a few weeks to see what we get. Excited to separate the rumors from the truth!

Those numbers sound about right. When i put my deposit down on March 28 there were about 110 left, now 32. So in about 10 days they will be gone. There will be some cancellations when it is unveiled, how many is unknown. I suspect few.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
Have a parts account or go to your local OB and ask pretty please if you can look at the data for this watch. Many will say no, but some will let you.

They will let you look at information on yet unreleased/unannounced models?
 
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I get a notification every time someone posts to this thread and every time I hope it's a picture of the official product. I'm a glutton for punishment. (Also dying to see it!)
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of 50th anniversary A11 Speedmaster news ...
 
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I totally agree!
For that premium price the watch has to have really HIGH class features/materials! Otherwise I will collect the standard Speedy, but buy it on the July 20th to make it my own special Speedy.

Totally! The watch will be special for you no matter what. The Speedie is special for going to the moon (among other reasons) not for having gone to the Moon exactly 50 ago--anniversaries are overrated. Watches in general are special and carry meaning (at least our core or unique pieces) because of the, hopefully, wonderful and sentimental emotions they invoke in us. They may remind us of youth, of specific success, of historical significance and so on. Most important though, watches are special because for many of us they serve as time capsules. They don't just tell time, but they store it. They capture the moments and memories of our lives and carry them for us in small metal packages. They're reminders, or symbols, of good times and bad and the crazy roller coaster of life. I don't need a 50th Anniversary badge to make any watch of mine any more special! Having said that, if it's reasonable, an anniversary watch can be great--another layer to special nature of watches.
 
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So does anyone know if Omega has managed to get the 3861 certified by NASA? My impression is that there will be no NASA certification for the 3861 Speedies, but then again Omega may have offered NASA something special to get it done.
 
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So does anyone know if Omega has managed to get the 3861 certified by NASA? My impression is that there will be no NASA certification for the 3861 Speedies, but then again Omega may have offered NASA something special to get it done.
I'm curious about this also. I seem to recall that when the ESA-certified X33 Skywalker was introduced, there was some talk of getting it NASA certified as well. That was 5 years ago now...
 
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I'm curious about this also. I seem to recall that when the ESA-certified X33 Skywalker was introduced, there was some talk of getting it NASA certified as well. That was 5 years ago now...
...now that NASA plans on going back to the moon, there may be a real life driver to do the X-33 certification. I somewhat doubt they will keep using mechanical watches, but again, in true American fashion, they may decide that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" and so, they may keep using the Speedy Pro as we know it.
Would make little sense to qualify the 3861... but that's just me.
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MTROIS MTROIS
...now that NASA plans on going back to the moon, there may be a real life driver to do the X-33 certification. I somewhat doubt they will keep using mechanical watches, but again, in true American fashion, they may decide that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" and so, they may keep using the Speedy Pro as we know it.
Would make little sense to qualify the 3861... but that's just me.

I have read somewhere that NASA will go with G-Shocks now.
 
Riviera Paradise
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Well it looks like the Speedy 50th will indeed have the moonshine bezel and a lunar module patch in gold in the seconds dial.
 
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Well it looks like the Speedy 50th will indeed have the moonshine bezel and a lunar module patch in gold in the seconds dial.
Is there a leak?
 
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Well it looks like the Speedy 50th will indeed have the moonshine bezel and a lunar module patch in gold in the seconds dial.
Do tell.... DO TELL!!! 🍿
 
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