Speedy Tuesday – First Series Omega Speedmaster CK2998-1, an absolute grail watch

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Robert-Jan

·Dec 27, 2016·#SpeedyTuesday

After collecting and hunting down Speedmasters for many years now, I can say that my personal grail would be a Speedmaster CK2998-1. To me, it represents the Speedmaster in its best form. Black bezel, leaf hands, straight-lug case and caliber 321 movement. Unfortunately it took me some years to find out, and once I did, […]

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M'Bob

·Dec 27, 2016

Great article, but one correction: the markers are likely not Tritium, as you state, but probably Radium.

 

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Riviera Paradise

·Dec 27, 2016

Thanks @Robert-Jan, great article as always.

Just made my desire for the current modern FOIS move close to trigger level🥰

Wishing you an excellent 2017!

 

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gemini4

·Dec 27, 2016·Hoarder Of Speed et alia

I believe the dial on this 2998-1, the wide oval O, is more normally seen on the earlier 2915-2 and 2915-3.

Edit: I believe the hour hand is also a 2915-3 hand. I didn't notice a mention of the movement number. I would presume it is a very early 2998-1 with some parts left over from the 2915-3

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ulackfocus

·Dec 27, 2016

Uh, @Robert-Jan - those are Alpha hands, not leaf hands.

http://www.watchtalkforums.info/forums/thread27751.html

Alpha on the left; Leaf on the right:

The closest to Alpha in design that Omega also regularly used was Dauphine:

 

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Mouse_at_Large

·Dec 27, 2016

 

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ahsposo

·Dec 27, 2016·Most fun screen name at ΩF

Geez, you guys are worse than my wife...

 

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ulackfocus

·Dec 27, 2016

ahsposo

Geez, you guys are worse than my wife...

Hey now, n00bs look to us experienced guys for knowledge. You can't be passing along the wrong information.