This site is built to be read, not skimmed. The Journal’s five guides run from history to the buying table — take them in order and every other section here will make more sense.
Step 01A line drawn to the Moon
Start at the beginning: from the CK 2915 of 1957 to NASA qualification and the watches worn on the lunar surface.
Read the guide → Step 02The Moonwatch, reference by reference
Learn to tell the generations apart — cases, calibres, dials, and the details that separate a grail from a parts watch.
Read the guide → Step 03Reading the vintage market
How condition, originality, provenance, and venue shape value — before you look at a single listing.
Read the guide → Step 04Buy well. Preserve better.
Finding value, inspecting a candidate, and maintaining a Speedmaster without erasing its history.
Read the guide → Step 05The Watch That Never Came Home
The verified story of the missing Moonwatch — and where the surviving flown Speedmasters rest. End with the mystery.
Read the guide →Then, wander
- The Flight Archive — mission-by-mission photography of Speedmasters in space.
- The podcast — Speedy Tuesday flight-history episodes and the Saturday market brief, narrated by The Collector.
- The Glass Case — what sellers are asking right now, refreshed by our nightly market sweep.
- Price Trends — verified realized and asking prices across nine references, plotted over time.
- Price Drops — asking-price reductions, tracked nightly across the major venues.
- The Reference Library — all nine vintage references, documented one by one.
- Rarities — Snoopys, Ultramans, and the unicorns — including the Alaska Project prototypes.
- Spotted — famous wrists, every reference identified and every claim sourced.
- Astronauts & Their Watches — mission by mission, from the first spacewalk to the Station.
- Care & Keeping — the owner's manual your Moonwatch never came with.
- The Launch Board — upcoming Space Coast liftoffs, with a live countdown.
- The Lounge — the watch as heirloom, daily companion, and good-luck charm.
- The Collector's Toolkit — seven free instruments: a serial-number lookup, a dial identifier, a birth-year lookup, correct bracelets, NASA's 1964 gauntlet, the four Moonwatch calibres, and boxes & papers.
- Contact — a correction, a listing worth a look, or just talking Speedmasters.