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

 

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!

 

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

 

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:

 

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.