Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Review OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Apollo XVII 40th Anniversary

OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Apollo XVII 40th Anniversary limited edition. This model was a bit frowned upon by Speedy purists during the introduction, but the 925 silver dial now seems to be accepted by many of them.More replica OMEGA Speedmaster watches.

The dial is made out of sterling silver. The Apollo 17 mission patch has been used for the dial, which is beautifully embossed in silver. The OMEGA logo, wording and ‘Speedmaster Professional’ wording has been printed on the sapphire crystal. Therefor, the dial is very ‘clean’ and like a coin dial.

The case, bracelet and movement are identical to the Speedmaster Professional ‘Moonwatch’ reference 357.50, although this model has a sapphire crystal fitted to the case and a special engraving in the case back. The movement is the famous hand-wound Lemania based caliber 1861 without the special finishing (1863). This is only being done for the models with a transparent caseback. You probably already know, but this movement is the successor of the caliber 861 movement.

The caliber 321 and caliber 861 movements are the ones that made it to the Moon. The difference between the caliber 861 and caliber 1861 movement is the use of materials and an extra jewel. The difference between the column wheel chronograph movement caliber 321 and shuttle-cam chronograph caliber 861 is a bit bigger. Replacement of the caliber 861 happened around 1997. So, this movement has been ‘around’ for quite some time already again and still going strong. I doubt that it will get replaced soon and if so, hopefully by a movement that is still hand-wound and one that comes very close to the original slow ticking caliber 321.

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