Additional thoughts...
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please allow me to show you something... Posted By: SteveW62 <Steve_Waddington@yahoo.com>
Date: 3/8/06 20:19 GMT
In Response To: Congratulations Kel', Here's what Steve refers to: (Chicagoland Chuck Maddox)
Chuck & Kelly have posted have posted extracts from "Chucks" MK V brochure (produced again here )
I host a similar owners manual ( in German ) & here's the matching page.
Now look at the bottom of each page... see the "printed in Switzerland/In der Schweiz gedruckt" bit ? there is a print date at the end of the line. In Chucks case 882, which is August 82. In my example 577 , So May 1977... Assuming that's what the nomenclature is for that (and I have no reason to doubt]...
77 ?? Now that is WAY too early for a "marked MK V".
The manuals are identical except the date & the front cover ) I would have to re-examine my example (and I'm not entirely sure where mine is)... I don't remember what the configuration was of my manual.
But according to Chuck's 1045 timeline '77 was around the end of most of the 1045 watch production & some 6 years before the start of the "Marked MK V" production. LOL, However, that table are my estimates of Omega production timelines. I had good information when that table was created actually in the back seat of a friend's car humorously enough) of the beginning of production, but I have little or no information about the dates that models ceased production or were dropped from the product line.
I am pretty confident that the 176.0014 pictured in the Mark V manual was in production through 1977, but when production actually stopped is something I do not know, it could have been in 1977, or 1979, or even 1981 for all I know.
I obviously can't PROVE that Omega didn't print paperwork 6 years in advance, but it seems obvious to me ( with hindsight ) that Omega did refer to some/all of the early 1045 speedmasters as MK V. It's interesting that Omega a) didn't so note that [Mark series] point on the dial, and b) that the Mark V was called the Mark V on the dial, and not the Mark VI.
Hmmmm food for thought ? It remains a mystery. The Mark V (in the Teutonic case) remains the only Mark V as noted on the dial, and also the only Speedmaster Variant that is part of three otherwise separate branches (Mark, c.1045 and Teutonic) of the Speedmaster's history.
Steve
BTW, click on the pics for a link to the relevant webpages. Thanks as always, Steve, for the additional insight!
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