Omega

Last year, Omega celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Speedmaster.

 

Through the years, only few things have changed on that classical model. To illustrate that point, you will find below two versions of the speedmaster:

On the left a speedmaster CK2998-5 with a service bezel and a service dial.

On the right a speedmaster professional 3572.50

 

 

Will you see all differences between these 2 versions, with more than 40 years between them ?

 

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Marv

Hi

The armor ring on the 2998 is a wide steel colored ring.   The armor crystal ring on the 3572.50 is a very think flat black painted ring that is almost invisible .


How is that one Marv ?

Here is a 1970 Speedy... 145022 i think...







Great looking example.  From the pics it looks like you prefer straps of steel bracelets ?

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne

Hi Bill,

 

Very nice patina on the speed you show!

 

Your guess is correct. I do prefer leather straps of steel bracelets for all my watches, except for 2 models: the sportive Rolex watches and the AP Royal Oak. The main reason is that I like to change from one strap to another to “customise” the watch.

 

To illustrate that point, I will post the photos of some watches where I have removed the original steel bracelet in order to “dress” the watch

 

Grey alligator on this seamaster

 

 

  

Orange strap on this 70s memomatic (groovy baby!)

 

 

 

  

Simple leather strap on the Speed 2998

 

 

 

 

And a more classy alligator on the modern one

 

 

Man, I wish they would re-introduce the original dauphine hands!

NT

As zephyr49 said, the big difference is the hands: Dauphine-style on the 2998 vs white baton hand on the modern one. By the way, the three counters of this 2998-5 have already the baton hands. Only the 2915 and the early 2998 had small dauphine hands for the 3 counters at 3, 6 and 9 hours. To continue, the center chronograph second-hand is also different.

Concerning the dial, the 2 main differences are:
- the metal applied Omega symbol vs white painted logo and
- the text Speedmaster vs Speedmaster Professional with slightly different script style.

The cases can be distinguished by the crown guards that were not present on the 2998. The pushers are also smaller on the 2998 than on the modern speed.

And finally, as Bill mentioned, the less obvious difference is maybe the inner ring attached to the crystal of the 2998. This metal ring has disappeared since.

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Marv

The hour markers on the first Speedmaster go all the way to the edge of the dial.  On the later Speedy they stop and change to a very small mark that goes to the edge.