Omega Speedmaster

For me, it's a Rolex because this movement, I cannot find it in the 80s in a Tudor or in an Omega, right? Mm-hmm.

Or when you buy a Speedmaster, you don't care that there's a Le Mans inside because more or less you don't find it nowadays in any other watch, right? So for me as a buyer, which might make sense, is to say, is this movement unique to my watch? The question is who did it at the end doesn't change much because most of the brands assemble all their movement and they, at the end of the day, bypass all around suppliers.

So with Manufacture MT, this was really the idea was to offer to bigger groups or bigger brands who can afford this big, big investment to create movements, new ones, not something related to ETA construction from the past.

So something not generic, Just Tyler made.

And this is exactly the height.

I'm a bit slightly lower even.

I'm lower than a vintage Speedmaster, which is 13 something.

But I would be more or less in the height of normally sized chronographs from the 40s.

Sasha says it, Sasha Davidoff.

I believe in reference to the Omega Speedmaster scandal, the Tropical Speedmaster that sold for $3.1 million back in 2021.

But it says something to the effect of, It's almost a court of public opinion.

If everyone else says it's wrong, it's like it's wrong, even if it's not necessarily wrong.

Oh,

that's not in my Speedmaster.

We need a space watch.

We need a space watch.

I don't.

Don't get me wrong, I know what Speedmaster is.

Although, you know, in fact, when we were at the airport in Switzerland, Gordon literally had to point it out to me going, that's the watch.

I'm like, okay, cool, right.

The most honest answer is like a Rolex Daytona, like a steel Daytona.

Knowing that that's basically unobtainium for most people, I would say like an Omega Speedmaster Professional, great watch.

A Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, great watch.

Anything from Grand Seiko is very good under 20,000.

So like if shit gets rough or somebody gets sick, I can sell it and double my money.

And so that is the kind of process with the Daytona in particular.

But the Omega Speedmaster, you can go in and buy and has arguably a more interesting history.

The quality is effectively the same.

you guys know I got to shoot that he'd sold it already but he still got it to me so that I could shoot it and just spend a couple of days with it and it was like fucking cool yeah

if anyone hasn't seen it I think on YouTube I think it's episode 3 or episode 2 maybe where we get to witness one of Steph's watch deals from one of his sources, and they had this very special Speedmaster, Omega Speedmaster prototype, that I think there's only one remaining, because I think...

Well,

apparently there was 12 made, but every other one was handed back, but this one's... yeah and it's it's essentially a classic moon watch but it's had a complete movement swap to an automatic movement but most importantly it has a date window at 4 30.