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·I would like to pose a question to my friends in the Speedmaster community at large. The Air Force sent me to Thailand in 1970, and while there I bought s Speedie Pro for around $125 as I recall. That was a significant purchase for a low ranking enlisted man.
The watch is one of the rare so called “transitional” variants, and will be fifty-four years old in January of 2023.
Over the years I have had it serviced several times and had to replace the hour and minute hands, the crystal, the bezel, the neoprene case gasket, and one of the chronograph pushers. They are all genuine Omega parts.
The watch just recently stopped running and is now in need of a complete service. Before it stopped running, its only problems were it was gaining approximately forty-five seconds a day, and the bottom (hour) sub-dial hand would not always return to the twelve o'clock position when it was reset. Aside from that, it is in very good overall condition.
I don't have the original box but I do have the original warranty booklet with the movement no., reference no., vendor, date, etc. on the back page ; the original directions for use booklet, and a thicker Omega Speedmaster Professional cal. 861 instruction booklet. I also have an extract of the archives which I recently ordered and received.
My problem now is that I'm a seventy-six year old retired senior on a very small, fixed income, and I simply can't afford to spend eight or nine hundred dollars to get the watch serviced. There is no one in my family who is interested in having the watch after I die. I know from doing a lot of research that these transitional watches are quite valuable in the current market.
Unfortunately, the watch is of no use to me in its current state. I wore the watch daily ever since I bought it and would love to do so even now if I could, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
What should I do ? Any advice from those of you who are much better informed than I am would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much in advance.
The watch is one of the rare so called “transitional” variants, and will be fifty-four years old in January of 2023.
Over the years I have had it serviced several times and had to replace the hour and minute hands, the crystal, the bezel, the neoprene case gasket, and one of the chronograph pushers. They are all genuine Omega parts.
The watch just recently stopped running and is now in need of a complete service. Before it stopped running, its only problems were it was gaining approximately forty-five seconds a day, and the bottom (hour) sub-dial hand would not always return to the twelve o'clock position when it was reset. Aside from that, it is in very good overall condition.
I don't have the original box but I do have the original warranty booklet with the movement no., reference no., vendor, date, etc. on the back page ; the original directions for use booklet, and a thicker Omega Speedmaster Professional cal. 861 instruction booklet. I also have an extract of the archives which I recently ordered and received.
My problem now is that I'm a seventy-six year old retired senior on a very small, fixed income, and I simply can't afford to spend eight or nine hundred dollars to get the watch serviced. There is no one in my family who is interested in having the watch after I die. I know from doing a lot of research that these transitional watches are quite valuable in the current market.
Unfortunately, the watch is of no use to me in its current state. I wore the watch daily ever since I bought it and would love to do so even now if I could, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
What should I do ? Any advice from those of you who are much better informed than I am would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much in advance.
