Japan's oldest department store, 300 panda-dial Speedmasters, and the first white dial Omega ever put on the Moonwatch.
A correction first, because the record deserves it: the Mitsukoshi is reference 3570.31.00 from 2003 — not the 3570.50, which is the standard transitional Moonwatch of the late 1990s. The confusion is common; the watches are not.
Mitsukoshi is Japan's oldest department store, and in 2003 Omega made it an exclusive: a Speedmaster with a white “panda” dial and black subdials, sold only through Mitsukoshi's Japanese stores. It was the first panda-dial Speedmaster Omega ever released.
Production is consistently reported as 300 pieces across WatchBase, Kalmar Antiques and BackWatch Dept. — well-attested, though no Omega-official figure was found, and the casebacks are not described as individually numbered.
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Reference | 3570.31.00 |
| Year | 2003 |
| Calibre | 1861, manual-wind |
| Dial | White/silver “panda,” black subdials |
| Production | ~300 pieces (well-attested, not Omega-official) |
| Market | Japan only — Mitsukoshi stores |
Japan-only Omega editions are a collecting subfield of their own, and the Mitsukoshi is its panda-dial cornerstone — the first of its kind, and still the reference point for every white-dial Speedmaster since.
Three hundred pieces through a single retailer is genuine scarcity without the auction-house mythology.
“Limited to 300” is well-attested across multiple dealers and databases but not Omega-official; no individually numbered casebacks are described in the sources found.