Prototypes, tributes, department-store oddities and anniversary pieces. Click away; get lost.
Beyond the nine baseline references sits the deep end: prototypes, tributes, department-store oddities and anniversary pieces that most collectors only meet in auction catalogues. Each page below is a rabbit hole — the story of why the watch exists, how to spot one, and where to go next. Vintage is the baseline here; this is the alpha and the omega of it.
An orange chronograph hand, a Japanese television series, and one of the Speedmaster's most storied nicknames.
Open the study → Rarities · 1969–1979Four prototypes, one impossible brief: a Speedmaster that could survive the Moon's temperature swings.
Open the study → Rarities · 2003 · 2015 · 2020Fourteen seconds, a beagle, and NASA's highest honor — three times Omega told the Apollo 13 story on a dial.
Open the study → Rarities · 1976Omega's second limited edition ever: 500 steel Speedmasters for the first joint US–Soviet spaceflight — sold only in Italy.
Open the study → Rarities · 1969–1973Omega's first numbered limited edition and its first solid-gold Speedmaster: 1,014 pieces, beginning with the astronauts themselves.
Open the study → Rarities · 2003Japan's oldest department store, 300 panda-dial Speedmasters, and the first white dial Omega ever put on the Moonwatch.
Open the study → Rarities · 1968–1970Checkered minute tracks, orange hands, and subdial numerals printed like sun rays — the Speedmaster's most colorful experiments.
Open the study → Rarities · 1973Omega's 125th birthday present to itself: the first chronometer-certified automatic chronograph — and a watch that flew in space.
Open the study → Rarities · 1985“Speedymoon”: the first Speedmaster ever fitted with a moonphase — built as quartz pressure mounted in the mid-1980s.
Open the study → Rarities · 1987–1988The nickname started as one collector's joke in 1999 — and stuck to the strangest automatic Speedmaster Omega ever made.
Open the study →A note on numbers: production figures below are given only where a solid source verifies them. Where the record is thin, the page says so — estimates are marked as estimates, and gaps are gaps, not guesses.