1968 Stainless Steel Speedmaster Wristwatch by OMEGA
1968 Stainless Steel Speedmaster Wristwatch by OMEGA
1968 Stainless steel Speedmaster Ref: 145.012 wristwatch by OMEGA
The black dial features baton hour indices, baton hands with central chronograph seconds, outer minute track with strokes to 1/5th of a second, subsidiary seconds at 9 o’clock, 30 minute register at 3 o’clock, 12 hour register at 6 o’clock and 'Dot Over 90' tachymetric scale bezel in exceptional condition.
This was the last Speedmaster to be powered by the calibre 321, Lemania, manual winding chronograph movement and an example of this reference was worn by Michael Collins and several other astronauts on the later Apollo missions.
Price: £16,000
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