Eight free instruments for the vintage Speedmaster collector: date a movement from its serial, find your birth-year Speedmaster, identify a dial from five questions, run NASA’s 1964 qualification gauntlet, learn the four Moonwatch calibres, meet the Speedmaster on screen — and get bracelets, boxes, and papers right. No account, no cost — everything runs in your browser and your data never leaves your device.

Tool 01 · Dating What year is my Omega? Enter a movement serial number and get an estimated production year — plus which Speedmaster references were in production then. Open the tool → Tool 01 · Dating Born in the Right Year Enter your birth year and get the estimated serial range for a birth-year Speedmaster — plus every reference in production and the rarities that share your vintage. Open the tool → Tool 02 · Identification Name that dial Five questions about hands, case, and dial text narrow your watch to a reference family. A starting point for research, not a certificate. Open the tool → Tool 03 · The Gauntlet Would your watch survive 1964? Run the eleven qualification tests that made the Moonwatch — heat, vacuum, shock, and 130 decibels — trial by trial. Open the tool → Guide · Calibres Four calibres, one Moonwatch 321 vs 861 vs 1861 vs 3861: what changed inside the Moonwatch, what didn’t, and which one belongs on your wrist. Read the guide → Guide · Provenance Bracelets: what's correct 1039, 1116, 1171, 1175, 1450, 1479 — which bracelet belongs on which reference, how to spot an original, and what correctness is worth. Read the guide → Guide · Provenance Boxes & papers Boxes by era, cards by era, the full-set premium — and the truth about Omega's suspended Extract from the Archives. Read the guide →

Built to be checked

Every tool on this page is an estimator or a starting point — never an authority. Serial tables are compiled from widely published collector references (Omega itself publishes no official table), dial identification can’t see a redial through your screen, and nothing here replaces a watchmaker’s loupe. (Omega’s Extract from the Archives — the only official factory record — has been suspended since 2023 with no announced return.) The collector’s rule stands: verify everything, trust the watch in hand.

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