Thank you for those images - Strong informative photographs - Easy to assimilate I am sure others would be interested, to see this clear visual comparison, across all the earlier Speedmaster cases. Best wishes for the Weekend
Out of curiosity is the bottom case a -64 or earlier? I have 2 -65's within a couple hundred serials of each other and they both have the same profile of your top case. I have a -64 and a -59 with a similar profile to the lower case (chunkier). They seem to have had different facets as well. Tomorrow in the daylight I will try to take some photos and post here.
I note the "x" in the heading then I suppose the cases are not actually the same reference? (different years?) I have made assumptions before about different references that seem to look the same - but actually have got small differences - and I wonder if in fact this is what is here.
The bottom case is from a 2998 and the top from a 105.003, I'd say, because of the different size of push buttons.
The top one is a 105.003-65 and the fat one is my 105.002-62 (105.00x). So if some of the owner of 105.002 could check there case it Will be gréât because the case are différent (so option are : over polished 105.003-65 or différent case with the 105.002....)
I am not sure with this. It depends if Omega used already the new case with the bigger pushers or still the 2998 case and only a new case back on those 105.002.
Here you go. From the bottom to the top: 2998-2, 2998-61, 105.002-62, slightly later 105.002-62, 105.003-64 and 105.003-65.
Barking Mad, since your photo is extremely helpful with comparing case angles and profiles of the different variations... would you be so kind to share with us for sake of reference, if any of the cases in the photo received a significant amount of polishing? Or are they all relatively unpolished? Thanks for sharing.
I will take some pics and add comments when I get home from work tonight. However most are relatively unpolished as best you can tell on a watch that is over 50 years old Cheers
There are some significant differences there for sure in that stack. It looks to me from that single pic that only the third one from the top has escaped having case work to the sides. Happy to be proved wrong though of course. That's a great collection!
As promised, although a couple of days late. Bit hectic at work the last few days. I felt like I was asking the old girls to drop their skirt but for the sake of science. I don't profess any of my watches to be perfect or untouched/polished but in representative condition. I think after fifty odd years in service that very few unpolished examples exist, I am not saying they don't exist but are extremely rare. I have taken pics of the lower lugs and non crown side of the cases. Obvioulsy some have received more attention from the wheel than others but it is what it is. 2998-2 2998-5 2998-61 105.002.62 Slightly later 105.002-62 105.003-63 105.003-64 105.003-64 105.003-65