Speedy Tintin information gathering

WurstEver

Interesting! Any images of the inside of the casebacks?

divisionbyzero

A guy here in the CH recently sold on a local auction platform 3 TinTin sapphire glasses (casebacks), claiming they were
-a from Omega and
-b dating from 2004.
Now if this is correct, this means that Omega was in the process of making the TinTin special as early as 2004.
The glasses sold for a couple of hundred $ each.

xantiagib

These look exactly like the ones on the back of the prototype at the museum, all the details line up
being from 2004 I doubt it, 2014 maybe... but that early?

KnoP

such a glass would be great to ien if anyone has one to sell 😉
anyway i made my deal perfect wirh @Ludi after my missfortuned buy a few month ago!
i love it and the story of the watch (buy) deserves a thread…
this was my first f2f buy and it couldn‘t have been better! more to come 😉

divisionbyzero

As the 'TinTin' was introduced at the Basel World in the spring of 2013 as a normal Speedmaster variant, it's highly unlikely that Omega would have invested more time and money into a failed project. So dating the glasses after 2013 just does not fit.

Dating them to 2004 however is quite reasonable for me. Let's say Omega started the 'Destination Moon' project around this time (perhaps initially even without contacting the Hergé Foundation), with a scheduled production run of 1950 pieces (= publication date of 'Destination Moon'). So after some time (can be years when legal matters are involved) the deal with the HF finally went sour. Omega had to cancel the project and decided to do... nothing.
But still, they sat on a pile of checkered dials and 'TinTin' themed colorful caseback glasses. So again after some years of licking wounds, Omega decided to move on and make use of the 'Destination Moon' remains.
We all know what they did with the dials. And the glasses? ;-)

Scarecrow Boat

Just wanted to post as I remember there was a question as to how the 3861 bracelet looked on this watch. Now that I have owned both the polished/brushed and the full brushed, I figured I would share them as a comparison. I like them both for different reasons but ultimately, I feel the brushed/polished is too flashy.

Scarecrow Boat

Just wanted to post as I remember there was a question as to how the 3861 bracelet looked on this watch. Now that I have owned both the polished/brushed and the full brushed, I figured I would share them as a comparison. I like them both for different reasons but ultimately, I feel the brushed/polished is too flashy.

Scarecrow Boat

Thanks! This bracelet just arrived but prior to this it was on a modern 1171 bracelet. Most of the time it’s on a blue strap