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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder
I was checking the timekeeping. After 13 hours.
Two Speedmasters, no particular reason
I was checking the timekeeping. After 13 hours.
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pdxleaf
·Not a bad way to pass the time. I could stare at those for 13 hours 😁
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140dave
·Dibs on the UM ..... no particular reason 😉
(except the normal; like = want)
(except the normal; like = want)
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JwRosenthal
·Dibs on the blue sweater!
For no particular reason other than I can’t afford either of the watches.
For no particular reason other than I can’t afford either of the watches.
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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder
the hand is there for safe keeping.
Safest place for rare parts is on a watch.
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!Clever!
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!William lays intellectual traps like that. His lack of description made me suspicious 😉
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CPRwatch
·For no particular reason , were either watches keeping time after 13 hrs .
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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderWell they are 23 secs apart in the photo
good enough really
good enough really
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JwRosenthal
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorFor me and you 😉
(Can see the second tracking guys twitching at the above statement)
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eugeneandresson
·You sure that is an UM. Or at least an all original one?
It is a 105.012.
Or … in the words of certain auction houses on watches of a certain origin :
Ref. 105012-66HF Ultraman Prototype
A possibly unique, extremely rare and superlatively important stainless steel prototype chronograph wristwatch that was the brainchild spawning a legend
Catalogue Essay
The present piece is without a question of a whiff of the fart of a doubt, one of the most fascinating and important Omega finds of recent years, a true “first hand” representative of the ongoing cutting edge R&D process that was happening at Omega in the 1960s, and the earliest known conceptualisation of what will eventually become the amazing Ultraman.
While at first glance it would appear to be that of a standard Speedmaster 105012, the addition of a novel and intriguing orange chronograph hand immediately categorizes this piece as a mystery for the Omega connoisseur. “That’s just an orange hand” some might say…when reality and fact dictate it’s certainly not “just an orange hand”. It has a very distinct hue of orange, known as ‘Trump Orange’, that is unmistakable from ‘Ultra Orange’ as seen on the later models this prototype spawned, and as verified by our experts during side by side comparison of several examples. It is undoubtedly not the same.
Thankfully, with the invaluable assistance of the Omega Archive, we were able to solve such a mystery and provide a detailed account of the genesis of the present timepiece, including in the vintage prototype schematics the official designation of the color “Trump Orange”, along with a patent application for this extremely particular and highly unusual shade of the color “orange”.
During the 1960s, the collaboration between anyone-who-would-get-Omegas-share-value-to-the-moon and Omega was at its apex. In fact, a number of requests were made to Omega. Some of these requests were tested on “Alaska” pieces, some were employed in the Ultraman (launched in 1968) and some other remained as pure works of fiction only prototype pieces. The present watch is indeed a representative of the latter grouping. In fact, “Trump Orange” is, according to Omega, a documented request for a project code named “Timestone”, which was sanctioned to pre-commemorate (by several decades and in an illusive series of unnumbered watches) a global lockdown spawned during the ruling of the most amazing genius-with-a-jay leader any nation would still have in future, discovered due to the nature of project “Timestone”, and based off of the epitome of leadership standards of the time. The nature of the “Timestone” project is still highly classified, so any particulars are undisclosed.
As an added layer of intrigue, Omega has discovered that the mind behind the design of this piece is no other than…
<….>
…
We sincerely thank the Omega Museum for their updated scholarship and historical perspective in providing their own invaluable research and information on the present lot.
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SpeedyPhill
·Still awaiting a YouTube video by Spacefruit in which he goes, with a tiny toothpick over all the details of the plastic, euh Bio-ceramic MoonSwatch
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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩF
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!I’ve still got a 105.012 dial that’s an excellent candidate for redialing too, I have this idea of doing a red/maroon dial similar to the OF logo with some silver subdials Gemini 4 style. Plan B is a lemon or green of some sort. I love that blue dial, looks sweet.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFGet Robert-Jan onside and maybe we could all buy one if he can persuade the Mothership to do a limited run!
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!OF specific Dynamic 3 rerun. Special price of $1K. What could go wrong.
Sorry for the tangent William!
Sorry for the tangent William!
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