Sunday reading - my very long and personal tale of an Omega Speedmaster Cal 321

Peturbed

The bottom button only starts the second, the top stops it. The rest does nothing else. The use of the "chrono" completely stops the actual time part of the watch!

Out of interest, here's a description of one that was on sale at eBay -
Brand: Ollech&Wajs
Model: Sport
Country of Manufacture: Switzerland
Gender: Men's
Age: Vintage 1950-1970
Movement: Manual winding, R. Lapanouse S.A. 1 Jewel
Features: Chronograph
Condition: Running condition. Timing functions work properly. The model does not have a function that turns the second hand to zero.

mikechi22

What a wonderful story! I think how you came to have your Speedmaster is really a marvelous, tale of good luck! And God bless your insightful wife for causing your epiphany! Thanks for sharing the account!

nonuffinkbloke

For 'Fakks Sake chaps!!!... did none of you want a train set like normal kids???😁
Just joking forum!😟

Lovely (part happy, part sad) story @Peturbed ! I made a cup of tea and read it in comfort.😀 Thankyou for taking me back to those 'halcyon days', long gone, when a 'keen minded' young chap could 'befriend an old watchmaker' in total innocence.😲.... Splendid stuff!... I was with you all the way! Liked the Biblical reference to Genesis. Very thought provoking. Interesting that the 'good book' also refers to the creator as 'The Alpha and the OMEGA'!

Thankyou for sharing your experience of those exciting times with us. I can relate to it very closely as I was also born in 1957. Sadly I wasn't a model student.🙁 Instead I was a 'know nothing kid' 😟 who opted for truant and 'fakkin about on the London Underground Railway system. But, like you, I also watched the 1st moon landing on a 'ghostly old telly' and my Dad did buy a 1960's 321 Omega Speedmaster back then. Having said that, the 'beloved old basstedd' never let me touch his Speedy and never even bought me a crap watch as a substitute!😁

Dad used to say "Get away from Omeeeeeyga... or I'll kick you up the arse! If you wanna know the time there's a fakkin clock on the teamaker by my bed! But don't wake me up, don't nick my 'ciggies' and don't 'fakk about' with my Omeeeyga! 😁

(I had to wait until 2003, but my Dad did eventually leave me his Omeeeeyga. Here he is after a session down the British Legion Social Club in the 1970's. That may even be the old 321 Speedy, on it's folded bracelet, next to the 'ciggies' and cup of tea. Dad was 6 feet 5 inches tall. Not a good idea to wake him up when he'd been on the beer with his mates..... or 'fakk about with his old 105.012-65 Speedmaster😲 )

YES INDEED WE MISS OUR DEAR OLD DAD'S @Peturbed... Glad to see your missus highlighted his unspoken benevolence and that, like me, you eventually got your Omega Speedmaster.👍

Peturbed

Thanks so much, I really enjoyed your shared tale and I'm very glad that you wrote it up and sent a pic of your Dad -.......... Share a photograph of your Dad's watch if you ever get the chance!

nonuffinkbloke

😁 Sorry @Peturbed, but there may well be one or two members on here having laugh at your request for me to "share a photograph" of Dad's old Speedy.😁

I've only been a member for 14 months and I only own one watch... but I've posted dozens of pictures of it around this forum and 'shamelessly flaunted' that old Speedmaster as if it's 'buxom, middle aged, Parisian tart'!😟

Anyway I can't miss the opportunity so here goes another 2 or 3 shots of the old, brown dial, 105.012-65.
(One of them, in the 1970's, before the dial turned brown)😕

Dad and his Old Speedmaster turned a much cooler shade of brown than I seem to.😟

Peturbed

Seeing as I posted a picture of this watch on another thread, I thought I'd tell you my personal story of how I ended up with a decent Speedmaster when I had thought it was old and tatty. If you are expecting a dramatic tale, well, don't read any further because it will probably bore you.