Hi all! I did a previous post about my dads old speedy: https://omegaforums.net/threads/need-help-and-advice-1966-speedmaster.58844/

And I have a question about it´s dial. The "professional" text is a lot more yellow then the white "Omega Speedmaster" text. I have looked at other dials from the same era and I haven't seen the same phenomenon elsewhere. Any clues?

Best regards

 

I for one have not seen that before

 

Is it possible that the dial might have been replaced during an early service, but only a pre-professional dial was available, so "professional" was added by the watchmaker??

 

Look at the Speedmaster font... redial?

Close T. B2 dial 64-67 105.01263-66

 

My dad got it brand new and has never serviced it, so it seems unlikely.

 

Bracelet is from 1970...

 

That's a new one me. Very suspiscious.
I can't wait to hear the experts views.
Good luck.

 

Saw this thread and meant to check my own but kept forgetting at the end of the day. My -66 HF with slightly yellow Professional text:

 

How can you tell?

 

Forgot to add, my dial is closely-spaced Ts as well.

1970 bracelet from other thread linked by OP

 

Ah, hadn't seen that.

 

40+ experts didn't even notice that yellow "professional" (repainted in my opinion)

 

Yep, he recalls having changed that.

 

Ok, so it seems the professional is painted in separately from the other text because it ages in a different manner. Maybe they added the professional on a bunch of "preprofessional" dials.

 

on a two year olds level, what does this mean?

 

Some short hand...

Close t refers to the distance of the T's on the bottom of the dial around Swiss Made.

B2 dial is the dial reference from the book Moon Watch Only aka MWO

64-67 is the year that dial was in production

105.012 is the reference number of the watch with that dial. 105.012 - 63 and 105.012 -66 are the range of sub references the dial is acceptable on.

 

Ok, thanks!