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Stainless steel, reference 3578.51.00 Speedmaster "Snoopy Award" Professional chronograph wristwatch. Made 2003

Stainless steel, reference 3578.51.00 Speedmaster "Snoopy Award" Professional chronograph wristwatch. Made 2003

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Information

  • Brand: OMEGA
  • Year: 2003
  • Model: Speedmaster
  • Reference: 3578.51.00
  • Calibre: 1861
  • 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: 39mm
  • Bracelet/strap: Stainless steel bracelet
  • Accessories: Extract from the Archives
  • SKU: 03097

Essay

This model commemorates the “Silver Snoopy Award” that OMEGA received in 1970 for helping to get the Apollo 13 crew safely home. The watch has a representation of the “Eyes on the Stars” patch on the subsidiary

small seconds dial as well as reverse printed on the sapphire crystal caseback. It was limited to 5,441 pieces referencing the length of the mission – 142 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds.