zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Before I bought my last 2254.50, I seriously considered Speedmaster, altho it would have had to have been a c321, "used," from the actual "moon" era. Like here, I found an incredibly generous and knowledgable cadre of owners who coached me up and advocated these great time pieces.

I don't know about "accuracy," per se, but they seemed to be much more interested in taking the backs off their watches, debating minute technical functions of this approach versus that even within variations on the same Speedy movement -- and, of course, authenticity.

For as few moon missions as were actually made, and my deductive questioning of how hard it could be to keep track of the relatively small number of watches in the closed, inventoried environment of those space ships, I found myself amazed at how much disagreement there continues to be about the first watch to do this, and whether or not such-and-so watch did that.

So in answer to your question, I'd say that the Speedmaster owners I've known tend to be different from Seamaster owners in that they tend to be more technically and legally focused.

Among the Posts that grab my attention as an SeMPC owner, I'm among those who tend to be more technical performance vis-a-vis the James Bond mission I happen to be undertaking at the moment, be that on the snow, water, women, food, or confrontation.

Whatever I'm recovering from when I force open my eyes to check out the time, I want to know I can depend on my Seamaster not to let me down (w/in -1 to +6 seconds per day, of course: I am, after all, reasonable!).

Hope these thoughts are helpful.