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Stainless steel Speedmaster, reference 145.012 'Tropical dial' Professional chronograph wristwatch. Made 1968

Stainless steel Speedmaster, reference 145.012 'Tropical dial' Professional chronograph wristwatch. Made 1968

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Information

  • Brand: OMEGA 
  • Year: 1968
  • Model:  Speedmaster
  • Reference: 145.012
  • Calibre: 321
  • Movement:  Manual 
  • Material: Stainless steel
  • Features/complications: Chronograph
  • Dial: Black matt dial with luminous painted baton indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, outermost 1/5 second divisions featuring subsidiary seconds at 9 o’clock, 30 minute register at 3 o’clock and 12 hour register at 6 o’clock with luminous baton hands, and arrowhead centre chronograph seconds
  • Case dimensions: 42mm
  • Bracelet/strap: Leather strap
  • Accessories: Extract from the Archives
  • SKU: 02880

Essay

The 145.012 launched in 1967 was the last Speedmaster launched to be powered by the calibre 321, Lemania, manual winding chronograph movement and an example of this reference was worn by Michael Collins and several other astronauts on the later Apollo missions.