Speedy Tuesday: My Dream Speedmaster Is An Impossible-To-Find NASA Watch

Tag0935 · Jul 5, 2025

Just to add the info I learned in the meantime - alternate bezels for 1861 and older movements can be obtained and installed in OB upon request and payment of ~150 CHF. They do not return the original bezel thought, so if you want to keep both bezels, maybe an independent watchmaker with parts account is the way to go.

pdxleaf · Jul 5, 2025

Tag0935
Just to add the info I learned in the meantime - alternate bezels for 1861 and older movements can be obtained and installed in OB upon request and payment of ~150 CHF. They do not return the original bezel thought, so if you want to keep both bezels, maybe an independent watchmaker with parts account is the way to go.

You're correct. But not actually any more practical than a tachymeter.

Tag0935 · Jul 5, 2025

pdxleaf
You're correct. But not actually any more practical than a tachymeter.

I also went with a decimal bezel as it is nicely symmetrical. But speaking of practicality, I think the pulsation bezel could be used here and there. The rest I see as purely decorative. It seems to me that the existence of alternate bezels is a well kept secret though, they are a rare sight.

SpeedyPhill · Jul 5, 2025

Even two days before the launch of the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project spaceflight mission, NASA astronaut & ASTP PLT Vance Brand, a former US Marine Corps aviator & Lockheed test pilot, was still wearing his bespoke "60 seconds" bezel Omega Speedmaster. Brand had acquired the special NASA-issued Speedmaster as backup CMP crew member of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and wore it ever since during NASA training!
(Photo: NASA)
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Speedy Tuesday: My Dream Speedmaster Is An Impossible-To-Find NASA Watch

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