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Speedy Tuesday Event – A Few Impressions

Yesterday we had the honor to be a part of the Speedy Tuesday Event, hosted by FratelloWatches and OmegaWatches at the SpaceExpo in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. And a blast we had!

The Omega Museum was kind enough to bring quite a few exceedingly rare Speedmasters and Speedmaster prototypes. As did the attendees.. we’ve seen some beautiful watches and met great people!

But enough talk – let’s see some pictures!

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Granted, it’s not a Speedmaster, but nonetheless it’s an important piece in Omega (and watchmaking) history – the first production model of a Co-Axial Omega, given by Omega to the late mr. George Daniels – as indicated by the engraving ‘ To our friend George Daniels’ and the LTD number 000/999.

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Impression of the lunch, with the museum pieces underneath the glass domes for the guests to admire, try and photograph.. A sign of great trust. In the foreground Alon ben Joseph, CEO Ace Luxury Group, sitting next to Bert Buijsrogge of DeHorlogeFotograaf & Fratellowatches.

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Benjamin Clymer of Hodinkee.com uploading to Instagram – at least, that’d be our best guess..

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Bernard Werk of Watching Magazine and Ernie Romers of Watchuseek.com

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Gerard Nijenbrinks of HorlogePlatformNederland and his awesome Alaska Project – with the protective casing of course

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The Mattingly Speedmaster – the very example sold by Antiquorum in the 2007 Omegamania Auction.

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The classic – so clean!

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An old friend of SpeedyWatches.com and his stunning Speedmaster Professional..

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Bert Buijsrogge – double wristed with the custom Racing Professional and Broad Arrow.

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Eric van der Hoeve of Omega Benelux speeching.

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Frank Geelen of Monochrome-Watches wearing his brand new Speedmaster First Omega in Space, delivered to him just an hour or so before this pic was taken by Ace Jewelers.

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Lot’s of pictures being taken and shared – often the very same second. It’s a brave new world folks!

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The Flightmaster / Speedmaster X-33 Prototype – the one that is lacking a pic in our X-33 files!

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Another shot of the Mattingly Speedmaster.. A great piece of history.

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It was not just Omega who brought the watches.. Lots of collectors brought their Speedies to the event..

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One of the Alaska Project Prototypes.. Cased in titanium.

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Omega Master Watchmaker on the right.

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Another Alaska Project Prototype in sandblasted stainless steel – one of our favorites of the day.

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You’ll have to take our word on it, but this Speedmaster Automatic belonged to the late George Daniels and was one of the first watches to be fitted with his Co-Axial escapement.

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A few great resources – part 1

Omega Speedmaster Professional Italia.

Omega Speedmaster Professional Italia.

We’re working on a pretty neat and complete website on our favourite watch. However, we are not the only ones – not by a long shot! Today’s post is dedicated to all those who are working on websites and blogs dedicated to the Speedmaster. Below you will find a list of a few of our favourites:

  • Credit where credit is due: Omega has created, as one of the few manufacturers that we know of, a pretty impressive database of their vintage models. When looking for generic info on a specific reference, this is a nice place to start:

OmegaWatches.com Vintage Watches Database

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  • One of the greatest resource pages on vintage models must be ChronoMaddox, created by the late Chuck Maddox and kept online by his friends after his death. Old school lay-out, but it still works!

ChronoMaddox

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  • TheMasterOfSpeed is a Tumblr page with some great vintage Speedmaster and Omega pictures.

TheMasterOfSpeed

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  • Speedmaster-Mission.net is another great resource page that is worth a visit if you’re looking for info on (vintage) Speedmasters. It features -amongst other- a great picture archive and interesting databases.

Speedmaster-Mission.net

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This is it for Part 1 – in Part 2 we will feature a few of our favourite forums!