Speedmaster...what dont you like about it?

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Sorry you got hurt. Dont need to read .
Should've started a thread about things I dont like about Marilyn Monroe...silly me!!
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About 20 years ago, when I didn’t own a Speedmaster, I didn’t like its:

1. Plastic crystal...cheesy.
2. Manual wind...cheesy.
3. “Speedmaster” name...cheesy.

Miraculously, about 5 years ago, I started to dig all those things that I had previously considered “cheesy”...so I bought a Speedmaster. 👍
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@Mad Dog Where did you find that? I remember getting that toy set when I was a kid, about the time of the moon landings. It was a Moon Base if I remember correctly. Plastic Lego-like parts with transparent blue plastic outer panels that swung down, the whole thing hexagonal in floor plan with two or three stories.

Good times!
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The 38mm solution:
And it hacks too.....

Wife has one. I’m impressed with it and her for getting it.

I love my speedy 9300 but I do get slightly annoyed that the end links on the bracelet go outward rather than articulate down like the current crop of new bracelet end links. Makes a big watch wear even larger. Being a pragmatist I just ended up buying loads of extra straps though. Win win.
 
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@Mad Dog Where did you find that? I remember getting that toy set when I was a kid, about the time of the moon landings. It was a Moon Base if I remember correctly. Plastic Lego-like parts with transparent blue plastic outer panels that swung down, the whole thing hexagonal in floor plan with two or three stories.

Good times!
That’s not my Major Matt Mason action figure. It belongs to a friend of mine who has a collection of them...and he sends me pictures of them...because he feels sorry for me that I don’t have any. 👍
 
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Its pretty much perfect...although it doesn't seem to stay long in my collection .
 
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@Mad Dog Where did you find that? I remember getting that toy set when I was a kid, about the time of the moon landings. It was a Moon Base if I remember correctly. Plastic Lego-like parts with transparent blue plastic outer panels that swung down, the whole thing hexagonal in floor plan with two or three stories.

Good times!
Isn't that Mattel's Major Matt Mason? Great action figure. Good times indeed!
 
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I have the 9300 movement moonwatch in stainless and adore it. That said, if I could make one slight change it would be to somehow have the combined chronograph minute/hour register work as a "jumping" minute. Tracking hours is a piece of cake but it can be hard to distinguish minutes from time to time.

I know size is always a big issue with Speedy owners but I love the 44.25mm case size (blasphemy, I know). I would even go as far to say an ever so slightly bigger case than that would be awesome (assuming they could trim the thickness down a couple mm's).

And lastly I would love it if Omega would make a better green NATO strap already. Army green NATO's look good on pretty much everything. The OEM one Omega makes however is kind of a lame color of green. Not specifically a "what I don't like about my speedmaster" question but I think it would be amazing to have a proper army green NATO for it.
 
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I remember getting that toy set when I was a kid, about the time of the moon landings.

wow some of y'all had a luxurious childhood. our fun consisted of digging holes in the back yard then filling them back up before dad got home from work! .
 
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That’s not my Major Matt Mason action figure. It belongs to a friend of mine who has a collection of them...and he sends me pictures of them...because he feels sorry for me that I don’t have any. 👍

Yeah, a little google foo and I found plenty of info. I remember that the strings coming from the top and bottom of his backpack were attached such that you could pull the top string all the way out and connect it to something high. When you pulled on the bottom string it would retract the top string and make him appear to float in space (from my search, there were scenarios other than the moon base). It worked because both were attached to two different diameter pulleys connected together; the lower one had a larger diameter and more string. I had to take it apart to see. I would have been about seven at the time.

I also remember that he was poseable with wires molded into his arms and legs. Unfortunately the wires didn't last long, along with the fun.

Thanks for the memory.
 
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I have the 9300 movement moonwatch in stainless and adore it. That said, if I could make one slight change it would be to somehow have the combined chronograph minute/hour register work as a "jumping" minute. Tracking hours is a piece of cake but it can be hard to distinguish minutes from time to time.

If you think that's bad, try it with an SMPO with claymore hands on the chrono. I have to use a loupe to decide how many minutes have elapsed.
 
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wow some of y'all had a luxurious childhood. our fun consisted of digging holes in the back yard then filling them back up before dad got home from work! .

Lookshury.
We used to dreeam of aving a back yard.
 
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That my parents didn’t buy me a 2915 in 1958 as my birth year watch. 🙁
 
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I would love for my Speedmaster to be equal to my Daytona.
Water resistant to 100m.Then I would never need to take it off my wrist.
I could swim,have a shower without any fear of water damage.
The aesthetics of the watch are perfect to my eyes.