Which watch would you like to see TAG re-issue?

Jim Dollares
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"Definitely absolutely 100% truly recommend" 😁

Feels like you are sort of sure about this
 
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abrod520 abrod520
Definitely absolutely 100% truly recommend an actual Carrera from the '70s 😀 In fact I'm wearing my 1153 right now.

Apreciate the recommendation.

I started this year with the intention of getting a couple of vintage pieces, and ended up with a couple of modern instead. Although slightly impulsive buys I still think this is the right 'base' to start from for every day wear inc rigours of travel, servicing etc. Sapphire glass in particular important to me.

At the moment I'm still considering one more modern watch then 'go deep' on the vintage pieces..... but then again I got hooked into two unplanned buys this year so who knows!
 
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Jim Dollares Jim Dollares
"Definitely absolutely 100% truly recommend" 😁

Feels like you are sort of sure about this

Sort of, yeah 😉

(They're really great watches and not too expensive as vintage goes so I think they're great buys right now)
 
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Looks like Magnus Walker's Porsche Design chronography is nearly ready. Looks to be a special edition of the Chronotimer. The black bracelet seems similar to the Orfina bracelet, Walker's favourite watch.

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I'd love to see TAG re-issue this in say, 40-41mm and definitely with the bracelet as is!
 
Yago
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So Omega is bringing the calibre 321 back. So much for trying to fit modern calibres in vintage inspired pieces. Personally I'm not convinced if they simply want to replicate the moon watches. You're probably better off buying the real thing. I have a speedmaster with the 861 movement and although I like it it's not nearly as satisfying as the Lemania 5100. Sturdy but with basic functions, no seconds hacking etc. Interesting to see all the angles watch brands are taking to profit on their heritage.
 
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Yago Yago
So Omega is bringing the calibre 321 back. So much for trying to fit modern calibres in vintage inspired pieces. Personally I'm not convinced if they simply want to replicate the moon watches. You're probably better off buying the real thing. I have a speedmaster with the 861 movement and although I like it it's not nearly as satisfying as the Lemania 5100. Sturdy but with basic functions, no seconds hacking etc. Interesting to see all the angles watch brands are taking to profit on their heritage.

Have you ever spent a couple days with a 321 Speedmaster? Winding it, using the chrono etc.... It's much nicer than the 861 and it's a really sturdy, well-designed movement. Omega bringing it back is an enormous upgrade to whatever watch they put it into (I'm guessing LE Speedmaster at first, followed perhaps a few years down the line by the regular Speedmaster Professional)
 
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Please translate for those of us who aren't omega experts!
 
Yago
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I’m afraid I haven’t. No idea what the practical difference is between the calibres. In general I find these old chronographs have their charm as relics but not so much for daily use. The lemania 5100 is the exception in my experience. There’s a reason this calibre was obsolete at one point right? Bringing back an exact calibre from more than 50 years ago has to be for romantic reasons. Otherwise Omega’s saying ‘hey we’ve been making crap these last few decades, let’s go back to our fifties technology”. I kind of get it with these vintage inspired pieces but for exact re-issues I would always choose the original piece. The original calibre 321 speedy’s can be had for 6-8000 euro in case of the 145.012. Less than the upcoming LE I bet.
 
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Hubert Hubert
I really hope Omega put the 321 movement in an Ed White reissue, like the one that was produced for the First Man film.
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It would certainly be correct given the 321 variant. Makes me wonder if the watch was a prop or an actual prototype of a watch to come. In any case I suspect a 105.012 will be part of the range to come as it is the true moon watch.
Big year for Omega. But let’s not forget John Glenn’s Heuer stopwatch as first ‘American’ in space.
 
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It would certainly be correct given the 321 variant. Makes me wonder if the watch was a prop or an actual prototype of a watch to come. In any case I suspect a 105.012 will be part of the range to come as it is the true moon watch.
Big year for Omega. But let’s not forget John Glenn’s Heuer stopwatch as first ‘American’ in space.
Yes, I really hope it was just a teaser of the special edition we'll get this year. Otherwise the logical model would be the 105.012 that I also pasted above.

And of course, John Glenn's Heuer is unmistakably the first Swiss watch in space.
 
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Hubert Hubert
I really hope Omega put the 321 movement in an Ed White reissue, like the one that was produced for the First Man film.
https://www.watchonista.com/article...-small-step-ryan-gosling-one-giant-leap-omega
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For the space flight and testing scenes, Gosling wears a Speedmaster ref. 105.003 ‘Ed White'.
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For the Apollo 11 mission scenes, the Speedmaster ref. 105.012 is worn during the mission and eventual moon landing.
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Why does this feel like a 'spot the difference' game?
I got a) the strap, and b) one says 'professional' one doesn't... is that it?

Ooh, and the lugs are different!
 
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Why does this feel like a 'spot the difference' game?

This game feels like the Speedmaster's only raison d'etre.

I find the Speedmaster boring and many of them do look alike, although there are also a huge number of wild variations, most of which look ghastly. Omega have milked this cow to the moon and back several hundred times!
 
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Why does this feel like a 'spot the difference' game?
I got a) the strap, and b) one says 'professional' one doesn't... is that it?

Ooh, and the lugs are different!
The Ed White version has straight lugs and an over cleaner design (the revised lugs, pushers, and crown guards were introduced in the "Professional").
 
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Yago Yago
So Omega is bringing the calibre 321 back. So much for trying to fit modern calibres in vintage inspired pieces. Personally I'm not convinced if they simply want to replicate the moon watches. You're probably better off buying the real thing. I have a speedmaster with the 861 movement and although I like it it's not nearly as satisfying as the Lemania 5100. Sturdy but with basic functions, no seconds hacking etc. Interesting to see all the angles watch brands are taking to profit on their heritage.

From an email newsletter that I receive:
05cf956f-4e9c-4c28-a25b-3f89ccbe96ee.jpg ***Breaking News: Microsoft reintroduces Windows 3.21 Anniversary Edition

To celebrate Bill Gates’ 70th birthday and 35 years of his iconic operating system which revolutionised the computer industry, on February 30 Microsoft will release a limited issue of Windows 3.21.

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If you are an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch enthusiast then you have already heard the Breaking NEWS from Omega Bienne: Omega is reintroducing the famous Calibre 321 - the original mechanism featured in the 1969 moonwatch! As I type this, hundreds of bloggers around the world are spreading the good news; and by lunch time the entire 'watch community' will be on fire, raving in ecstasy about the 'best manual wound chronograph movement of all time'. They will be celebrating and salivating about "the good old column wheel", chrono work - and some will even mention "the golden 18000 bit per hours". Others will talk about "going back to roots and Moonwatch DNA".

Yet in reality, Cal 321 is nothing more and nothing less than Windows 3.1: horological nostalgia and a not so clever marketing attempt. Don't get me wrong: the Cal 321 was one of the better watch movements of the 1960’s. It served its purpose for a decade or so; it was well-made, robust and reliable. And the reason we love and admire it - is the same reason we love Elvis, the Beatles and Win 3.1 - they were good for their time, and will remain 'locked in it'. Forever.

However, the future of horology is not Cal 321 with its straight lever escapement, manual winding and even the dreaded column wheel - this level of horology was already reached back in the late 1700's. For Omega, the future should not be about the past: the focus must remain on new in-house developments, new materials, new escapements, well-engineered cases and bracelets - at an affordable price. For a company of Omega's size, resurrecting Cal 321 is just kid's stuff; too easy and too lazy - even if to be fitted into a Moonwatch.

The only thing of interest: how much?

By the way: the graph on the top shows the Omega (Swatch Group) share price movement. If you invested in Omega shares six months ago, you would have lost 41% of your investment.. Almost as bad as Richemont.
 
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Hubert Hubert
The Ed White version has straight lugs and an over cleaner design (the revised lugs, pushers, and crown guards were introduced in the "Professional").

Ah, now I see the pushers are different and the crown.... that really was quite a good 'spot the difference'!😀 Especially as I couldn't see both at once.
 
Yago
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Interesting that ‘69 was also the year Heuer et al introduced the allegedly world’s first automatic chronograph in the Monaco. Omega were late to the party. As in Space.
 
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