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• April 8, 2018

  Daniel Craig visits the OMEGA Replica Watches factory in Villeret, Switzerland

  Daniel Craig has made a special visit to the heart of the Swiss Omega replica watchmaking industry for the inauguration of the OMEGA factory in Villeret, Switzerland. The actor who reprises his role as James Bond in SPECTRE, the 24th Bond adventure, was given a guided tour, as well as exclusive access to the factory’s assembly line. During the visit he was also shown production of the new OMEGA Seamaster 300 “SPECTRE” Limited Edition.

  For OMEGA, Daniel Craig’s visit to Villeret was a momentous occasion. Together with Nick Hayek, Swatch Group CEO, and Stephen Urquhart, President of OMEGA, Craig was shown exactly what goes into making OMEGA watches such as the one he wears in SPECTRE. As an avid collector himself, he was fascinated by the engineering and expertise on show.

  “I think what was so impressive was the fact that these fake Omega watches are made from the ground up. You start with nothing, and then there’s suddenly a working watch. That’s the beauty of it. To see the engineering that goes into it and the legacy that goes into it, that’s what fascinated me.”

  The Seamaster has been James Bond’s watch since GoldenEye (1995), with its naval history and classic style, the watch perfectly reflects Bond’s character. Now, in celebration of the new movie, fans and watch collectors will be able to buy the model worn by 007 in SPECTRE, as the OMEGA Seamaster 300 will go on sale as a limited edition. The release marks a first for the partnership; until now, only commemorative editions have been used to celebrate OMEGA’s link with the franchise.

  The Omega replica Seamaster watches features a bi-directional, rotating diving bezel, made from black, polished ceramic, combined with a LiquidMetal® 12 hour scale, so that time can be kept with any country in the world.

  Other unique features include the “lollipop” central seconds hands, as well as the 5-stripe black and grey NATO strap. On the bracelet’s strap holder, the 007 gun logo has been engraved.

  Each replica Omega watches has its own unique serial number engraved on the back along with the SPECTRE film logo, celebrating the latest on-screen adventure. Inside, the watch is driven by the highly innovative OMEGA Master Co-Axial calibre 8400, a revolutionary movement in its own right.

  This special timepiece will be limited to just 7,007 pieces. It will be available in selected boutiques from September.

• April 7, 2018

  Speedy Tuesday – Rob’s Omega Replica Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB

  It’s Speedy Tuesday! One of our readers, Rob, mailed us with some great news. He purchased a beautiful Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB from the first owner.

  Rob explains: “….. the watch was purchased by the previous owner while he was in the medical corps of the Navy (in the midst of the Vietnam War, although I’m not sure if he actually wore it overseas or saw action). He wore it for a little while, but eventually moved on to something else and basically just left it in a drawer for decades. Thankfully, the original papers were kept with the watch and given the light use over the ensuing decades, the case and dial are quite possibly the cleanest I’ve ever seen for this reference.”

  It is uncertain where this beautiful Omega Replica Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB was bought originally, but the watch was bought in 1968. The Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB was made from 1966 till 1968 and the serial number (or movement number, as Omega officially calls it) refers to somewhere 1967. Unlike many Speedmaster enthusiasts think, the year in the reference number doesn’t automatically refer to the production year of the watch. You always have to check the serial number to be certain. Omega keeps track of two dates actually, the serial number that refers to the production date and the date it was delivered to one of their agents. Then, of course, you have the date when the watch was sold. There can be quite a bit of time between those dates, for various reasons.

  Another interesting aspect about this Omega Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB is the ‘CB’ part. CB stands for Le Centrale Boites and was one of the (two) case makers used by Omega Replica Watches for the Speedmaster. The other case maker was Huguenin Frères. There are some differences in cases made by these two manufacturers, which is ‘unthinkable’ these days, as the specifications that are supplied by the brand should be leading at all times. However, it was in a different era and perhaps CB had good reasons to do things differently from HF. The CB cases are becoming more difficult to find in an unpolished condition but the good news is that it is very easy to spot. The lugs happen to be a bit more flat on the upper side, and have this very thin facet next to it (on the inside). This thin facet is easily gone when being polished and an easy way to detect sloppy polish-work.

  Rob bought this Speedmaster Pro 105.012-66CB with the original warranty papers, which where then filled-in by hand (name of the buyer, serial number, reference number and date of the sale). It is interesting to see that the original owner had his name and title engraved in the case back. I personally like this type of ‘personal history’ on a watch. It shouldn’t influence the value of the watch as far as I am concerned in negative nor positive way. The condition of the watch is much more important.

  Our reader got into mechanical watches just 1.5 years ago, and from the start, he knew that the Omega Speedmaster was something special. As he described it in his e-mail to us, “it was apparent that a Speedmaster was universally recommended for anyone’s collection, regardless of one’s wealth / penchant for expensive pieces. The history, in my very humble opinion, is unmatched by any other sport watch and the design is perhaps the most unchanged of any watch that’s been in production over a similar time period. In short – it’s historically significant, timelessly designed, rugged, and able to be had at a relatively affordable price (especially 145.022’s and other 861 calibers).”

  Like many other (starting) Speedmaster collectors, Rob was first after a 145.022 from a very early period, preferably the transitional model that has the applied Omega Replica Seamaster logo but with the caliber 861 movement. A very cool looking watch with the aesthetics of the 145.012 and 105.012 but about half the price of those. However, his first buy was actually a Speedmaster reference 105.003-65 he stumbled upon in Denmark. No more than six months later, Rob added this beautiful Omega Speedmaster Professional 105.012-66CB to the collection as well. Quite an amazing start for someone relatively new into watches (and Speedmasters).

• April 6, 2018

  Omega Replica Speedmaster Racing

  Before Omega’s legendary Speedmaster watch was worn by astronauts on the moon — and thus forever linked to space exploration and assigned the nickname “Moonwatch” — it was much more closely associated with the decidedly earthbound activity of automobile racing. In fact, when Omega introduced the first Speedmaster in 1957, it designed the watch’s dial to resemble the dashboard of that era’s Italian sports cars. Motorsports and rally drivers prized the Speedmaster for its chronograph capability and for the fact that it was the first chronograph watch that positioned its tachymeter scale on the bezel rather than the dial.

  The Omega Replica Speedmaster Racing, on the market since 2012, is a return to the brand’s automotive roots. Its got a 40-mm steel case with a matte black tachymeter ring, made of aluminum, on the bezel. The type on the tachymeter scale is in either gray or gray/yellow or gray/red combos. Omega’s familiar seahorse emblem is featured on the solid steel caseback.

  The chronograph subdials, also available in several color schemes, sport a triangular Clous de Paris pattern. The 30-minute counter is at 3 o’clock; the 12-hour counter is at 6 o’clock; and the small seconds display is at 9 o’clock. There is also a date window at the 6 o’clock position; Omega includes a date corrector tool with each watch.

  The movement inside the Speedmaster racing is Omega’s in-house Caliber 3330, with a column-wheel chronograph mechanism, a silicon balance spring and the brand’s trademark co-axial escapement. Omega Replica Constellation is so confident about the watch’s timekeeping performance and reliability — the movement has been certified as a chronometer by the Swiss testing agency COSC — that it delivers it with a four-year warranty.

  The watch comes on a steel bracelet or a black rubber strap with a distinctive embossed pattern that bring to mind the treads of a race car’s tires — just another way the Swiss brand is putting the “speed” back in its Speedmaster. Both the rubber-strap and steel-bracelet versions of the Speedmaster Racing retail for $4,800.

  Technical Characteristics:

  Movement: Omega Caliber 3330, automatic, column-wheel chronograph; officially certified chronometer; 31 jewels; 28,800 vph; co-axial escapement with 3 levels; silicon “si 14” balance spring on Omega free sprung-balance; Nivachoc shock absorber; 52-hour power reserve
  Functions: Central hours and minutes; small seconds at 9 o’clock; date at 6 o’clock; chronograph with central seconds hand, 30-minute subdial at 3 o’clock, 12-hour subdial at 6 o’clock

  Case: stainless steel with polished and brushed finishes; diameter = 40 mm; thickness = 15.05 mm; stainless steel bezel with matte black aluminium tachymeter ring with grey/yellow scaling; polished crown and pushers; embossed Replica Omega De Ville logo on crown; domed, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal with nonreflective treatment on both sides; screw-down caseback stamped with seahorse medallion; water-resistant to 100 meters; on rubber strap or patented screw-and-pin steel bracelet with foldover clasp

  Dial and hands: Vertically brushed main dial (except matte black, white and red areas) in gray; triangular-Clou de Paris-textured subdials in black; yellow touch hour markers; transferred indices with Super-Luminova; blackened, rhodium-plated or varnished white hour, minute and seconds hands (hour and minute hands with Super-Luminova); blackened, rhodium-plated, varnished yellow or white chronograph hands.

• April 3, 2018

  the new Bond watch, Replica Omega’s SPECTRE Seamaster 300

  We take an exclusive, world-first up close look with replica Omega’s new Bond watches

  As marketing associations go, making the watch that James Bond wears is pretty much the most powerful there is. Forget new Omega replica watches worn by racing drivers, or actors, or even actors who were also racing drivers – this is bigger.

  If you doubt this at all, consider this: most watches that are delivered to QP Towers for us to pore over, photograph and review, come in pretty mundane plastic and polystyrene packaging – even the six-figure ones. When Omega sent the Seamaster 300 Master Co-axial Chronometer that Daniel Craig will wear in next month’s SPECTRE, it came in its full presentation box, complete with three-digit combination lock (no prizes for guessing what the code was), Omega-logo push-button clasp and a fair amount of what can only be described as “new car smell”. The message was clear: James Bond’s watch does not travel second class. Never mind spying; Omega understands that Bond is all about theatre, about grand gestures and small details.

  Omega has been producing James Bond’s watches since Pierce Brosnan serendipitously ended up wearing a Seamaster 300m in Goldeneye and the pattern since them has been pretty much the same: new film; new fake Omega watches, usually a Seamaster or Planet Ocean model, with a number of 007-related design tropes slotted in to make the point.

  This year, however, it sprung a surprise. Having already released a SPECTRE watch, back in February, word reached us a few weeks ago that there was going to be another Bond watch this year. And this one is… different. You could describe the flashy Seamaster Aqua Terra from February, with its bright yellow accents and Bond coat of arms adorning the second hand, as the watch of the film. This? This is the watch of the man himself.

  This is the Replica Omega De Ville watch that – we understand – Daniel Craig will be seen wearing during the film; not the Aqua Terra (although it’s entirely possible he’ll sport both at some point). And it is the antithesis of everything we’ve come to expect from an Omega Bond watch. The numbers “007” do not appear anywhere on the dial, and only very discreetly on one of the keepers for the NATO strap. There are no bright colours – instead we have the same vintage-hued luminova on the arrow hands and hour indexes as you find on the standard Co-axial 300, and the same glossy black ceramic on the bezel.

  Indeed, the changes to the watch are relatively minimal. The 12 has disappeared, replaced with a larger-than-usual Omega logo and text. The pointed second hand has been replaced with a “lollipop” style hand – which we just think is great, and does more than you would expect to influence the whole design. Most significantly from a functional point of view, the bezel notation has been changed from a minutes counter to a 0-11 hours scale, meaning the watch can be used to track two timezones. It also now rotates in both directions to reflect the change of purpose; this little switch makes the Seamaster less of a diving watch and more of an explorer’s timepiece.

  Otherwise, it’s the same 41mm case, same lovely mixture of polished facets and brushed caseband, same unguarded crown, and of course the same co-axial, antimagnetic (to 15,000+ gauss) caliber. Of course, because this is a limited edition (7,007 pieces being made; some habits do die hard) there is some custom engraving on the caseback, reading “SPECTRE” and the numbered edition. But that’s mostly hidden by the strap (as is the sapphire display window).

  Oh yes, that strap. We’d almost forgotten. In a great gesture to James Bond fans (and very possibly a sign of the times; after all, Tudor et al now sell watches on canvas straps as standard), Omega has equipped the SPECTRE Seamaster with a mil-spec NATO strap in black and grey stripes. Bond watch nerds will correctly observe that this is not the same configuration as the nine-band navy blue, red and olive NATO made famous by the oddly ill-fitting strap on Sean Connery’s Rolex Submariner in Thunderball. But it is a wholly suitable strap for this Replica Omega Seamaster watch, and has to stand as one of the main reasons Bond fans are going to love it.

  Having worn the watch, as well, it’s hard to imagine it on a bracelet or – heaven forbid – a leather strap. That would risk returning this subtle design to the levels of the core collection, and deprive it of its man-of-action status. It works that it’s light and breezy; some Bond watches in the past have been weighed down with their own seriousness – much like the films they accompanied. It’s no great stretch at all to say that this is Omega’s Casino Royale – back to basics, stylish, energetic and muscular. And very much one for the fans.

  The Replica Omega SPECTRE Seamaster 300 Co-axial is on sale now, priced at £4,785.

• April 2, 2018

  Cheap 1:1 Omega Replica Watches UK Store,New Replica omega Watches Online

  Omega is well known for his series of cutting edge Omega Replica Seamaster 007 watches designed for some of the world’s top sportsmen, but he has now decided to pay tribute to his female clientele by opening a new boutique right in the heart of one of Paris’ most prestigious avenues.

  Renowned for its many art galleries, elegant cafés and luxury boutiques the new boutique is to be found at 17 Avenue Matignon in the 8th arrondisement, close to the Champs Elysées; a location internationally renowned for luxury, creativity and architectural refinement.

  The 200m’ boutique is the biggest yet in Europe for the high-end brand and will present clients with more space in which to fully experience the brand. The Omega Replica De Ville watchmaking gallery was designed by M’lanie Monceyron to create an ambiance described as one of mellow reverie and passion.

  The curved lines of the ceilings and walls contrast with the cold hardness of metal. The Macassar ebony display cases are suspended over broken glass. The cold lighting of the watch area complements the soft, oblique light of engraved glass and warm wood. In the private salon, the silky softness of cream metal blends perfectly with the walls of the cellar which contains 60 grand crus and a fine cigar collection for visiting gentlemen.

  This collection of contrasts aims to highlight 40 men’s and women’s models, from sports Omega Replica Speedmaster Professional watches and high-performance timepieces to the new women’s collection and limited editions. The new Omega boutique will be open from Monday to Saturday, from 10.30 to 19:00 and customers can call in advance on +33 (0)1 40 15 10 00

• April 1, 2018

  Omega Replica Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GoodPlanet

  Omega’s long association with the ocean began in 1932 with the invention of its first divers’ watch. In 2011, the brand partnered with the GoodPlanet Foundation, an organization founded in 2005 that promotes environmental awareness and sustainable development. The results of the partnership are evident in the Omega Replica Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GoodPlanet.

  Intended as a tribute to the GoodPlanet Foundation and its work to preserve and protect underwater ecosystems, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GoodPlanet has a distinctly maritime look, with a bold, blue lacquered dial with applied indices. The hour, minute and seconds hands are polished, faceted and rhodium-plated, and the central GMT hand is fashioned from aluminum. The hours and seconds hands and GMT hand are coated with a type of white Super-LumiNova that glows blue in the dark. The minute hand, and the dot at 12 o’clock on the unidirectional rotating divers’ bezel, are coated with another type of white Super-LumiNova that emits a green glow.

  The date appears in a window at 3 0’clock. The 24-hour GMT scale is printed in orange on the polished, dark blue bezel; the wearer can track the time in a second time zone using the scale and the central GMT hand. The brushed and polished stainless steel case, which also includes a diving-friendly helium-release valve at 10 o’clock, is a generous 43 mm in diameter and water-resistant to 600 meters. It features a domed sapphire crystal with nonreflective treatment on both sides. There is also a scratch-resistant sapphire window in the caseback, with “GoodPlanet Foundation” engraved around its periphery and offering a view of the watch’s movement. The movement, Omega Replica Constellation‘s co-axial Caliber 8605, features automatic winding and a three-level co-axial escapement with an Si14 silicon balance spring.

  The watch is offered with either a stainless steel bracelet (price: $8,100) or an ocean-inspired blue rubber strap ($8,000).Replica Omega De Ville has committed a portion of the proceeds from sales of each Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GoodPlanet watch to the Foundation’s project to preserve the mangroves and seagrasses in Southeast Asia and educate the local populace about safeguarding these natural resources.

• March 28, 2018

  Omega’s New Replicfa Watches Certification: What Makes It Different?

  In December, Omega and METAS, the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology, held a joint press conference in Geneva to announce a new collaboration. Starting in 2015, new Omega replica watches that are badged “Master Co-Axial” will be officially certified by METAS, using a new testing system. But what does this mean for Omega, and for watch certification systems in general? Let’s take a look.

  At the December Press Conference, held at the Cité du Temps in Geneva, Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek was joined by Omega President Stephen Urquhart and Christian Bock, the director of METAS, to discuss the new system.

  The new certification represents a higher standard of accuracy. fake Omega watches will now be certified for not just consistent timekeeping but also for antimagnetism and water resistance. METAS, which describes itself as “the federal centre of competence for all issues related to measurement and for measuring equipment and measuring procedures,” will become the impartial regulating body to ensure that Omega’s manufacturing standards meet the brand’s promises. Going forward, all Omega Master Co-Axial calibers will be tested to meet certain standards. Each movement must continue to function when exposed to magnetic fields greater than 15,000 Gauss. Each finished watch must also continue to function when exposed to magnetic fields greater than 15,000 Gauss. The watch must keep consistent time, between 0 and +5 seconds/day, when tested at different temperatures and in different positions. Finally, each watch must be tested to ensure it achieves its stated power reserve and water resistance.

  Omega’s move to develop a new certification system with METAS is significant for several reasons. For the last several years, Omega has been at the lead in developing new measures to protect watches from magnetic fields. With the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra >15,000 Gauss, the brand has produced a watch movement that can keep time consistently even after exposure to some of the most intense magnetic fields a person is likely to encounter.

  The key to Omega’s design innovations is the use of antimagnetic materials inside the movement. Whereas the common solution to magnetism has been to shield the movement inside a soft iron Faraday cage, Omega’s antimagnetic watches use silicon balance springs which will not respond to magnetic fields at all. Since Omega has been publicizing its accomplishments in antimagnetic Replica Omega Seamaster watchmaking, the new certification allows the brand to make this engineering achievement official, as a standard that can be confirmed by an impartial observer.

  Another reason for the new certificate is COSC. For years, the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres has been the gold standard for the watch industry. This independent Swiss body tests uncased movements for timekeeping accuracy, and is the only institution in Switzerland that can sanction the use of the term “chronometer” on a watch dial. Omega has long been a major supporter of COSC. Of the 1.69 million watches COSC certified in 2013, more than 447,000 were for Omega, making it the second biggest chronometer producer after Rolex.

  However, in recent years an increasing number of Replica Omega De Ville watch brands have sought other standards of quality or have formed their own, often believing that COSC certification is too lenient. To pass the COSC test a watch movement must maintain accuracy between -4 and +6 seconds per day; however, a movement’s timekeeping can be affected during the casing-up process or when the rotor is affixed on an automatic – and all of this occurs after the COSC test has been completed. Since the new Omega testing will be performed on both the movement and on the finished watch – and since it has a narrower allowance, not permitting the watch to lose seconds, only to gain – it should provide a higher standard than COSC. Omega will continue to certify its chronometers with COSC over the coming years, but the number of movements receiving COSC certification will decrease as more and more Master Co-Axial calibers receive the new METAS certification.

  The new certificate will also have far-ranging effects on how and where Omega manufactures its watches. While testing will initially occur in Omega’s current facilities, the brand has plans for a new factory with a dedicated testing site. Testing will be performed and checked onsite according to METAS specifications. Omega is also making it easier to get information on watch testing than before. The owner of a certified Master Co-Axial Omega will be able to log onto a site using the watch’s warranty card. There, the specific results of the individual replica Omega watches, as well as the testing parameters, will be readily available. At the press conference in December, Hayek and Urquhart were encouraging about the fact that any brand can contract with METAS for an impartial certification system. While Omega has provided its particular standards for the Master Co-Axial movements, other brands could follow suit. Hayek expressed hopes that this development may lead to more widespread innovation. “This would benefit the entire industry – not only in Switzerland but in China and Japan and in other countries with a history of innovative watchmaking,” Hayek said.

• March 27, 2018

  Replica Omega De Ville Watches Online Store Prestige Dewdrop

  The Omega De Ville Prestige Butterfly was presented in October 2014 in Seoul, at Dongdaemun Design Plaza designed by Zaha Hadid, in a spectacular installation where the Plaza was filled with 21,000 white flowers lit by LED bulbs. This year, the best fake Omega watches will be released in a new version, the Omega De Ville Prestige Dewdrop, in which the most striking feature is a bracelet made from five rows of droplet-shaped links. It’s a lovely expression of jewellery, the bracelet flowing supply around the wrist like water and linked to the case with three lugs in the same dewdrop shape.

  Two sizes, quartz and mechanical

  The Omega De Ville Prestige Dewdrop is made in two sizes, 32.7 mm (thickness 9.55 mm) and 27.4 mm. The smaller models have a quartz movement with just hour and minute hands, the 32.7 mm versions have the Omega 2500-calibre mechanical automatic movement with three hands and date window. There are two dial designs, one in unadorned mother-of-pearl, and one with a decoration in golden butterflies inherited from the De Ville Prestige Butterfly. There are also two choices of gold, red or yellow. All have diamond-set bezels: in the 32.7 mm version there are 44 diamonds totalling 1.1 carats, with another eight on the dial. The Replica Omega De Ville watches have a polished rounded crown with the Omega symbol, and a solid caseback embossed with a depiction of Ancient Greek god Chronos and the Deville logo. Water resistance 3 bar/30 metres.

  

  Movement

  The quartz versions have the Omega 4061 movement with a battery life of 4 years. The mechanical versions have the Omega 2500 calibre movement, automatic with co-axial escapement, with COSC chronometer certification. It runs at 25,200 vph (3.5 Hertz) and has a power reserve of 48 hours.

  Price and availability

  This cheap replica Omega watch was announced at Baselworld 2015 but we didn’t actually get to see it, and prices have not yet been announced. It will be available from November 2015.

  Below, reference 424.55.27.60.55.005, automatic, yellow gold:

  

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  Below, reference 424.55.27.60.55.004, red gold, automatic:

  

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• March 26, 2018

  Fratello Friday: Our Prediction for a New Replica Omega Speedmaster at Baselworld 2015

  I would like to use this week’s Fratello Friday to make an educated guess on a new watch that Omega is likely to present during Baselworld 2015 later this month. Almost every year, Omega Replica Seamaster Watches introduces a limited or special-edition Omega Speedmaster to commemorate historical achievements by NASA in which a Speedmaster was involved.

  For example, every five years, Omega introduces a Speedmaster Professional Apollo XI limited anniversary edition to commemorate the moon landing in 1969. Last year, it was the Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XI 45th Anniversary edition (we covered it here), limited to (naturally) 1,969 pieces.

  So, going through the list of Apollo missions, we see that Omega would have only a few milestones to commemorate in 2015. There are the 1970 Apollo XIII mission and the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission. I also had a look at Space Shuttle missions, (for which the Omega Speedmaster got re-certified; (remember we’ve found one of 56 pieces here?), but it wasn’t until 1981 that the first Space Shuttle (STS-1) mission took place.

  Since Omega did an Apollo-Soyuz limited edition in 2009, with a beautiful meteorite dial (we reviewed it here and here) — and in fact had already done others in 1975 (500 pieces only, we talked about it here), and gold versions in 1995 (250 pieces) and 2000 (50 pieces), I think Omega will drop a new Apollo 13 mission limited edition on us this year.

  Now, officially,Replica Omega Speedmaster Watches released a limited edition to commemorate the Apollo XIII mission in 1995, and used the same watch for the famous white mission cases (50 pieces in total). The model from 1995 was limited (and numbered) to 999 pieces only. I say officially, because an unofficial, but very much Apollo XIII-related, model came out in 2003: the Omega Speedmaster Professional “Snoopy Award.” I am a bit in the dark as to why Omega chose that year to introduce this watch, but I will make sure to ask Omega in Basel.

  The Omega Speedmaster Professional ‘Snoopy’ is a much sought-after modern Speedmaster. I did a write-up on how Snoopy ended up on the dial of a Speedmaster in an article for WatchTime.com, which can be found here.

  I actually own both the Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII and the Snoopy Award model, and cherish them both. While the Snoopy watch tells us the story of the accident during the Apollo XIII mission in 1970 in which a Speedmaster came to the rescue, the 1995 Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII simply shows a (beautiful) mission patch on the subdial.

  Until now, if we look at the Apollo XI mission models, we only saw a mission patch at 3 o’clock, on the Missions Suit Case version of 1998 (here is one that was sold separately, though). We also have Apollo XI models with an inscription in the case band, only on the caseback or using silver or even gold medallions on the subdial. The 45th anniversary Apollo XI model didn’t have anything referring to the mission on the dial, it was just an entirely different execution of the famous “Moonwatch,” with its titanium case and Sedna gold bezel.

  So, in other words, chances are pretty slim that Omega Replica Constellation Watches will simply use the official NASA Apollo XIII mission patch again. One of the possibilities is that Omega will use the Snoopy Award again as the commemorative aspect. This would either make it “only” an Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII 45th anniversary or an Omega Speedmaster Professional “Snoopy Award,” version 2. I can’t imagine the latter, as it confuses people. My best guess would be that it will become the Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo XIII 45th Anniversary edition, hopefully with a Snoopy image somewhere. If Omega indeed decides to include Snoopy somewhere, I hope the company will do it as tastefully as it did with the 2003 Snoopy Award edition. This particular limited edition is a watch from my personal collection that I really cherish.

  Also, given the fact that the number of limited-edition Apollo models available has gone down drastically in the last few years, I think you need to act quickly, and as soon as you like what you see, order it. The Apollo XI 45th edition was limited to “just” 1,969 pieces and those skyrocketed out of the boutiques. Now, since Omega knows about the demand for these limited editions, especially the demand for the Snoopy (and the 1995 Apollo XIII model, for that matter), it just may make a few more than 1,970 pieces this time around. That is my hope, anyway. Either that or I’m able to snag one of the 1,970 pieces in time.

  Obviously, we’ll have to wait until March 19th to be sure, but I am convinced the parameters for such a watch (i.e, 1970, Apollo XIII) are clear.

• March 23, 2018

  Haute 100 Update: Daniel Craig Wears an Replica Omega Watches in New ‘Spectre’ Trailer

  

  The latest trailer for the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre recently premiered during the NBA finals, and the British super-spy can be spotted wearing what looks to be an Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial on a nato strap. The Bond series of films has enjoyed a partnership with Omega, stemming all the way back to 1995’s Golden Eye, where then James Bond, Pierce Brosnan also wore a Omega Seamaster 300. The latest Omega replica watches can be glimpsed on Craig’s wrist at around the :36 second mark during the trailer.

  

  In celebration of the new film, Omega has also released a special edition Replica Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M Master Co-Axial, which bears several references to the successful film franchise. The coat of arms of the Bond family has been subtly integrated into the pattern of the blue dial. The symbol also finds residence on the end of the bright yellow seconds hand.