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Storing Moonwatch pro for a month

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Hello Fellow omega fam,

first time omega owner here and i was recently fortunate enought to buy my dream watch the speedy bro . However i am not going to be able to open it for a month , i opened the box inspected it and back in the box it went . Can i keep it stored in the factory box for a month ?
 
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It’s designed to survive use in outer space. I think it will do just fine in the box.
 
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Welcome Neel,

My 51 year old Speedy goes months at a stretch without being worn, some of my watches go a year or more-it will be fine.

The only time you should have reservations about wearing a watch after long term storage is if it’s been a decade or more- and that’s just because the oils will dry up over time. They will run but may be wearing parts that need lubricant.

Enjoy your new watch when the time comes to break it free from the box and let us know once you what beaten it to the point where you can’t see through the crystal anymore and we’ll tell you how to polish it.
 
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Ever seen this Speedmaster Professional before? It's arguably the ugliest version of the Moonwatch ever produced, and one sat behind the glass counter at my local Omega Boutique for well over a decade. Still works. Your watch will be fine for a mere month.

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Meme-Dweller Meme-Dweller
Ever seen this Speedmaster Professional before? It's arguably the ugliest version of the Moonwatch ever produced, and one sat behind the glass counter at my local Omega Boutique for well over a decade. Still works. Your watch will be fine for a mere month.

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What the fresh hell is that??
 
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What the fresh hell is that??

There is some historical significance for this watch. Shortly after its release, Omega instituted mandatory drug testing for all employees.
 
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What the fresh hell is that??

It was the abomination anniversary Speedie for one of the anniversaries of the Apollo XVII mission. It's what happens when you leave the marketing guys with some LSD unattended for too long.
 
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Can i keep it stored in the factory box for a month ?
Do this at your own peril. Last guy who stored it in the factory box for a month… I’ll just say it wasn’t pretty.

Remember the 70/70 rule. 70f degrees and 70% humidity. You have been warned.
 
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Store it? In a box? Are you mad? No. Absolutely not. It won't survive.

These are shipped from the factory to the dealer on the wrists of employees, who hand carry the boxes in briefcases handcuffed to their other wrist. Once at the dealer a team of pygmy yetis is employed to wear the watches continuously. That's why the watch is so expensive, have you any idea how much mucking out a team of pygmy yetis need? The watch is only placed in the box immediately before it is handed to you as a buyer and it is designed to be removed from the box immediately after purchase.

Congratulations, by the way, on your purchase.

May I just point out that this is a moon watch pro and (once purchased) should therefore only be worn on the moon and only by a true pro.
 
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Do this at your own peril. Last guy who stored it in the factory box for a month… I’ll just say it wasn’t pretty.

Remember the 70/70 rule. 70f degrees and 70% humidity. You have been warned.
I think you meant to post this in the Cohiba sub-forum- unless you have a walk-in humidor for both your watches and cigars.
 
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I think you meant to post this in the Cohiba sub-forum- unless you have a walk-in humidor for both your watches and cigars.

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Ever seen this Speedmaster Professional before? It's arguably the ugliest version of the Moonwatch ever produced, and one sat behind the glass counter at my local Omega Boutique for well over a decade. Still works. Your watch will be fine for a mere month.

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Call me crazy, but I quite like it.
 
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Call me crazy, but I quite like it.

Ok, lay off the Mercury a bit, it's an Apollo commemorative.

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Theoretically, 70/70 although the ideal environment for tobacco (any more humidity encourages mold growth and warmer temp can encourage any tobacco beetle eggs to hatch- which is fυcking nasty to think about), ideal archival storage for paper and art is usually around 50/50- as in 50°F & 50% humidity.

Although the 50/50 rule would probably be ideal for the storage of watch boxes and paperwork, I wonder what the ideal specs would be for the watch storage itself to reduce any risk of humidity entering the case, degradation of rubber seals and possibly drying out lubricants. I assume it would be the same as gun or antique car storage since they are dealing with similar materials.
 
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I store my pipe tobacco in Ball mason jars in my whiskey cabinet. That seems to work just fine.

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Ball Aerospace made the Kepler telescope.

I have a jar what is probably 100 years old. Turned green. Sometime I want to make one of the paper models of the telescope and put it in the jar. The logo is much the same.

I think they subcontract the canning jar business nowadays.

BTW it is Mason's as possessive. A number of companies made them. Some of the other old ones I have were made by Atlas. The glass from these jars was used for the early vacuum tubes. The real silicon in silicon valley. The first TV stuff was also made from canning jar glass as it was easy to re blow.

Probably as good as any way to store the watch. Then the heirs can sell them as a job lot in a Mason's jar.
 
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Ball Aerospace made the Kepler telescope.

I have a jar what is probably 100 years old. Turned green. Sometime I want to make one of the paper models of the telescope and put it in the jar. The logo is much the same.

I think they subcontract the canning jar business nowadays.

BTW it is Mason's as possessive. A number of companies made them. Some of the other old ones I have were made by Atlas. The glass from these jars was used for the early vacuum tubes. The real silicon in silicon valley. The first TV stuff was also made from canning jar glass as it was easy to re blow.

Probably as good as any way to store the watch. Then the heirs can sell them as a job lot in a Mason's jar.

It probably was green due to iron oxide in the glass. Ball and Atlas made mason jars in blue, green, and "aqua" pretty commonly because of this- stabilizing glass to clear is a bit of an art that wasn't well understood in the 1800s. Some of the early clear glass used manganese as a stabilizer. However, when manganese stabilized glass is exposed to the ultraviolet light in sunlight for a long period, it causes an electron exchange between manganese and iron, and the glass turns purple. Here is A very old quart whiskey bottle That I recovered from a field-
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Other times, glass may have used something else like selenium as a stabilizer. Selenium stabilized glass will turn yellow or brown if exposed to ultraviolet. It's pretty common for Counterfeiters to expose old glass to radiation to color it.

Because of this tendency, it wasn't uncommon for old mason jars to be made in various shades of blue or green until aroundabout the 1930s.
 
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Your watch is safe for a month - or more. Many collectors have dozens of watches and they spend most of the time in a box or safe.
 
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