Speedmaster...what dont you like about it?

Eve · Feb 8, 2020

From a practical point of view i personally find the tachymetre bezel pretty useless, and winding it is also not the best sensation.
This one solves both points for me:

Nevertheless from an aesthetic point of view i like the Speedmaster more.

madjestikmoose · Feb 8, 2020

Lack of water resistance, and the fact that it’s easily magnetised.

3rdstringholder · Feb 8, 2020

Didn't like the bracelet on the Professional model, kind of let the watch down in my opinion. Replaced it with an 1171, problem solved....Gives it a vintage feel.

Donn Chambers · Feb 8, 2020

The only thing I do not like about the standard Speedmaster Pro (and I bought and sold two of them because of it) are the hour and minute hands. While I admit the white stick hands are highly visible, they look rather pedestrian from a style perspective.

Which is why I ended up with the FOIS edition - love those hands!

janice&fred · Feb 8, 2020

I don't have any issues with the watch at all and we own both a vintage pro and the reduced. However I do get kind of tired of seeing incessant pictures of them posted so usually glide past any thread title that says "speedy" in it 😁

1st speedy · Feb 8, 2020

janice&fred
I don't have any issues with the watch at all and we own both a vintage pro and the reduced. However I do get kind of tired of seeing incessant pictures of them posted so usually glide past any thread title that says "speedy" in it 😁

Wanna see my speedy?

janice&fred · Feb 8, 2020

1st speedy
Wanna see my speedy?

i suppose that's not as bad as you saying "speedo" 😁

wagudc · Feb 8, 2020

1st speedy
So far the only thing the irks me is the small hard to wind crown. It's too small for my fingers and I cant grip it good. It's a pain to wind...that's all.

I have always wondered why people think it is a pain to wind the Speedmaster and now I know. Don't try to use your finger tips. I place my index finger behind the crown as shown in the picture and then put the my thumb on the top. Then I roll the crown between the side of the last joint of my index finger and the pad of my thumb. Of course I normally hold the watch with my other hand while doing this, but I had to hold my phone to take the picture.

janice&fred · Feb 8, 2020

wagudc
I have always wondered why people think it is a pain to wind the Speedmaster and now I know. Don't try to use your finger tips. I place my index finger behind the crown as shown in the picture and then put the my thumb on the top. Then I roll the crown between the side of the last joint of my index finger and the pad of my thumb. Of course I normally hold the watch with my other hand while doing this, but I had to hold my phone to take the picture.

in all the years we have been playing with watches i have actually never heard of anyone saying this model was difficult to wind. However your image certainly will help in that department. Could this be due to manual winding watches are not so common anymore and some enthusiasts are used to automatics or quartz where the crown is mainly pulled (and more accessible) for setting the time and sometimes date?

if anyone wants to see hard to wind manual watches, many of those 50's and 60's watches with smallish and semi-recessed crowns were real pain in the asses to wind up. The speedmaster seems to have plenty of meat and diameter to the crown to wind her up in comparison.

VetPsychWars · Feb 8, 2020

I got rid of mine after I got a 2254.50 and liked it a whole lot better.

Tom

Faz · Feb 8, 2020

I've had more hand winding watches than I can remember and the later Speedmasters with crown guards, at least for me and many others it seems, are more difficult to wind. Does it make them a pain in the butt? Not entirely, but I find it more difficult to get a good grip on the crown than on other watches. Just enough so that's it's noticeable to me. I like to use the full surface of the side of my index as illustrated by @wagudc . Simply using the fingertips? A minor annoyance IMO but an annoyance nevertheless.

rudagger · Feb 8, 2020

Dislikes
- having to wind it (would prefer automatic, but I knew this going in)
- not easy to wind as other mentioned
- bracelet digs in too much on edges
- surprised to find chronograph pretty much useless certain times of the day. I figured I'd try the chronograph when I first bought it, then found when I stopped it that the minute hand was partially covering the stopwatch hand, and I really couldn't see the exact time.

101010oxo · Feb 8, 2020

I don‘t like that I don‘t own one (yet).

jsducote · Feb 8, 2020

FOIS here. It's not AS EASY AS my other watches to wind, but I wouldn't say it's difficult. I think part of the problem is that the crown does not come out very far when pulled, which just exacerbates the smallish crown. I don't think the FOIS is particularly easy to read, so I see a 311.30.42.30.01.005 in my future. Annual bonus coming in a few weeks, so the clock is ticking, so to speak.

Eve · Feb 8, 2020

VetPsychWars
I got rid of mine after I got a 2254.50 and liked it a whole lot better.

Tom

Same story here, for my personal needs the 2254 won over Speedy. But i do miss my speedy from time to time. Somehow cant justify having both at the moment, especially when the 2254 gets all the wrist time.

scapa · Feb 8, 2020

Hacking would be nice, as would slightly better accuracy, but while mine can lose a few secs on some days it's never off by much at the end of the week and I never have anywhere to be that requires me to reckon the time in seconds, so no biggie. Also can't really wind mine but I have trained my kids to do it, at the cost of a slightly bumped allowance. Other than that I absolutely love it, use the chrono a ton, and find its dial and handset to be one of most perfectly-designed in all of watchdom. And now that I know about the books at the bottom of the box thanks to a recent thread here, I have some fine reading material for those long winter nights. So it's a stone winner, in my book.

VetPsychWars · Feb 8, 2020

Eve
Same story here, for my personal needs the 2254 won over Speedy. But i do miss my speedy from time to time. Somehow cant justify having both at the moment, especially when the 2254 gets all the wrist time.

I'm looking at the Croton cronograph instead. Something different.

Tom

Eve · Feb 8, 2020

VetPsychWars
I'm looking at the Croton cronograph instead. Something different.

Tom

👍
I went for the Seamaster Chrono with an 861 which i am very happy about. It is also a little less common compared to classic speedmaster..

VetPsychWars · Feb 8, 2020

Eve
👍
I went for the Seamaster Chrono with an 861 which i am very happy about. It is also a little less common compared to classic speedmaster..

Another that might be fun is the German model Speedmaster. I think those are pretty cool too.

Tom

Eve · Feb 8, 2020

VetPsychWars
Another that might be fun is the German model Speedmaster. I think those are pretty cool too.

Tom

You mean the Teutonic?
I allmost pulled the trigger like 1 month ago 😉

Speedmaster...what dont you like about it?

Eve

madjestikmoose

3rdstringholder

Donn Chambers

janice&fred

1st speedy

janice&fred

wagudc

janice&fred

VetPsychWars

Faz

rudagger

101010oxo

jsducote

Eve

scapa

VetPsychWars

Eve

VetPsychWars

Eve

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