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馃殌 Speedmaster TinTin, Yes or Not? and Why? 馃殌

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Can anyone give me some information about the Speedmaster TinTin, its history and whether it has any collector's value? How many were made?
How can I check whether the year and serial number are correct in relation to the dial and case back?
Do you consider it an interesting model?
Many thanks as always.
 
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No one knows how many official Tintins were made except Omega, and they don't release information like that. This was in the period when dials like this were freely available so there are many plain Jane modded watches with this dial. You would have to provide the serial number to someone with Omega Intranet access to verify if it is an original model. It's an interesting model, but it has to speak to you and you have be comfortable paying the current market price.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
No one knows how many official Tintins were made except Omega, and they don't release information like that. This was in the period when dials like this were freely available so there are many plain Jane modded watches with this dial. You would have to provide the serial number to someone with Omega Intranet access to verify if it is an original model. It's an interesting model, but it has to speak to you and you have be comfortable paying the current market price.
The Tintin caseback is also different.
 
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dsio dsio
There's a massive 163 page thread on them here worth looking over:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/speedy-tintin-information-gathering.33387/ blubarb
Thread 'Speedy Tintin information gathering' 路
I believe production has now ceased for the Speedmaster "Tintin"

1. Do we have production dates/years for the Speedy Tintin?
2. Any guesstimates at production number - 400 was a figure I read...
blubarb 路
You're right, I was so excited to evaluate a proposal! I'll do more research next time.
 
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yes!! red engraved.
Easy enough to strip the black off a regular back and redo it in red.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
Easy enough to strip the black off a regular back and redo it in red.
I don't think there's a demand for this watch to drive people to do this well.

A real concern would be that the only difference between this and a standard moonwatch is the dial and caseback, so it can be hard to verify if a tintin was actually born a tintin or are they aftermarket parts (a simple search on this forum shows they were for sale).
 
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A real concern would be that the only difference between this and a standard moonwatch is the dial and caseback, so it can be hard to verify if a tintin was actually born a tintin
There are people who can search the Omega Intranet which refno is logged for the serialno. so it can be verified if it's a 311.30.42.30.01.004.
 
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I don't think there's a demand for this watch to drive people to do this well.
hmmm, they sell for USD $10k +/- -- that's not incentive?
 
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hmmm, they sell for USD $10k +/- -- that's not incentive?
It still blows my mind how dirt cheap these were, Jomashop and a bunch of other high volume grey market dealers were dumping these on eBay by the truckload at ~$3500 brand new, dropping to around ~$3,150 for sales when they were years old but still brand new in box. Nobody could get rid of them.

The Speedmaster Moon to Mars was another in that category, released in 2004, greys were still trying to dump them well under $3k in mid 2010s, and a bunch even ended up being modified new by dealers and fitted with 3570.50 dials, though retaining their LE Moon to Mars case-backs to make them more palatable to the market. Now those are shooting up too.
 
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I bought one at Costco. Still remember the first Snoopy for like 2500?
 
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I bought one at Costco. Still remember the first Snoopy for like 2500?
I know right? Costco had them by the barrel, they were selling new Speedmaster Date and Mark 40s for insanely low prices, but even LEs like the 40th Anniversary Apollo 11, were crazy cheap...

The Alaska Project too, people were like its a Speedy with bad legibility and a red case, I know blokes who bought the Alaska just to separate the red outer case from it and sell on the watch. Now the Alaska has a cult following.

Makes me feel old but it really wasn't that long ago. Mind you at that same time you could walk into a Rolex AD and buy any watch you wanted except the stainless Daytona for MSRP or less.

Who would have imagined people would now be posting "I got the call!" threads on TRF about a two-tone champaign dial "Boca Raton retired HVAC business owner spec" Datejust.

No disrespect to the Boca HVAC guys, your Datejust looks every bit as cool as your white Corvette, Stetson and Hawaiian shirt.
 
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The Speedmaster "Tintin" is a super cool watch. It's got a red and white racing dial, inspired by the Adventures of Tintin comic.
 
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