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Why did I just over pay for a Speedmaster MkII ?

Spacefruit
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Well I didn't overpay, I just paid more than a 145.014.

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This is a Telestop, reference 145.037

The most important thing when looking for a Telestop is those pushers:

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Here you can see the enlarged areas in the case, and the unique pushers. I have seen many on offer without these threaded pushers.

Also essential, is the extract. Again, many of the ones I saw, had swapped movements. Indeed I noted a higher than expected number of non original telestops. So we need an extract.

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This example, kindly sold to me by a member here, has been through an excellent service and case refurbish by Lewis Watch co. With MkII's we have to watch for excessive metal removal. Here we can see its pretty good thickness:

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On to the rest of the shots

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I am very happy to have found this. What I would love to find is the original Omega supplied mechanical controls. Photos here are from others:

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So, anyone got a lead on them?

And my next Mk II hunt is for the 18kt solid gold one, but to be honest I doubt the ability to buy it and the opportunity will coincide.
 
simonsays
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Nice, it’s a rare watch for relatively little money. With regards to the cable release, I wonder if the telestop device exists. I am sure I read somewhere even the one in the Museam is a mock up made by an Omega fan from a remote camera shutter release.
They are a bit of a mystery watch, what they were used for and why. Was it an aborted dead end and the watch cases were sold anyway without any release device?
 
michael e
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Regarding the cable release.
I am sure you will be able to use something like this below with maybe a customised attachment on the ends in the form of a milled and threaded steel tube to suit the space you have on the watch.
Hope this helps. Cool watch BTW.
Edit. Two singles might work better of course. ☕
Cheers, Michael
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Jones in LA
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What a fabulous acquisition! Congratulations, thanks for sharing the back-story.
 
jaguar11
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Still representing good value for money and a nice looking example!
 
Tet
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I was watching this one in the classified section and was amazed how long it hung around. Superb watch and that was a fantastic deal for such a rare and beautiful condition watch. Congratulations.
 
lexieb007
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Fascinating watch. History of timekeeping, along with all technological development, is of course riddled with failed engineering - the failure here of course, is not that it didn't work (it probably did)... but failure in that not long after it's release (whatever the external "dis-attached" need was for a mechanical "stopwatch" feature in a wrist worn chronograph), accurate digital start/stop time keeping, and then smartwatches materialised. Which basically killed the whole concept. Love it. 😀
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Fatcat
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Welcome to the Small club of owners mine says you hello , it is from Spain also ?
 
zoohannover
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From A Journey through Time.
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3498. Omega Speedmaster with “Telestop”, 1974: In the extremely rare “Mark II” model, which is produced in limited series, the pushers for using the chronograph from a distance are connected to a trigger by two 45 cm long cables. This equipment was intended for athletes for self-monitoring of training results without hindrance, e.g. the runner with the watch on the wrist and the trigger in the hand, or the skier with the trigger tied to the ski pole. Caliber 861, waterproof steel case with special pushers with threaded sleeves for fastening the cables. (ST 145.0037)

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Fatcat
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Looks like the real story about the shutter is, 1 OF member that lives close to San Diego now, was before in South Africa and made some « reverse engineering » and made it following pictures , looks like some years ago to donate the Shutter and the watch to the museum .

i asked if the got the blue print form South Africa but no, also the Telestop is not more in the Omega museum I think it is a complicate watch , for some parts was a NASA project , for others Athlétisme, for others ski etc.... maybe no one as the history even Omega itself.

the only thing more or less shure is the 50 pieces only.

Paul
 
Archer
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Just FYI for those who have that is missing the pushers with the threaded bits, those are still available from Omega.

 
Tonyash
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This example, kindly sold to me by a member here, has been through an excellent service and case refurbish by Lewis Watch co.

Glad you are pleased with the watch, William, and very happy to see it go on to a safe pair of hands.
Enjoy.
 
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