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Didn't spot a thing but still wanted to say congratulations - that is an awesome looking watch!

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"Ingrid Bergman"

Thank you all for your kind feedback about my Enigmatic Speedy from Spain!

Not only is it quite a nice watch, that bezel is really quite interesting.

There is a factory error that many of you spotted: the Tachymeter scale goes "190-220-225",
instead of the correct "190-200-225" - clearly and surprisingly wrong, especially considering
these bezels were also used on the "Project Alaska" prototypes, for NASA certification ?

For those interested in a little history about Project Alaska: http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=52984

Here is a 2008 letter from John Diethelm, now retired vintage Omega guru, about another Speedmaster w/ the same bezel:

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Dear Sir,

Your Omega Speedmaster chronograph - with movement # 26’5XX’XXX - has been manufactured under the reference ST 145.022 – cal. 861 and delivered to our Agents in South Africa on June 23, 1969.

We have compared all documents in our possession with the submitted photos and could not find any bezel having the number “ 220 “ following the “ 190 “ instead of the normal number “ 200 “. Basically, a number 220 is too close of the number 190 and should clearly stand as “ 200 “

Strange enough, we had indeed found the identical watch reference ST 145.0022 – cal. 861 under Lot 211 of the ALASKA PROJECT sold on recent Omegamania and having the identical bezel, i.e. showing the number 220 instead of number 200! However, these “Alaska Project” watches were supposed to be some “prototypes“ -

We cannot find a suitable explanation for this and if you wish to have this “strange” bezel exchanged for a correct new one with the number “200” following the number “190”, then we might do this at no charge for you.

Thanking you for having brought this is to our knowledge.

Have a happy Easter

Best regards
John R. Diethelm
OMEGA MUSEUM - Vintage Information
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Did continue w/ a little bit of research - more than Mr. Diethelm, apparently - and found the same bezel
in WatchGod Kaseharu Imai's "A Time Casule", on the second surviving "Project Alaska" piece.

Nice, love those hunts for strange, irrelevant knowledge.

The Antiquorum Speedy:



Kaseharu Imai "TimeCapsule" Speedy:


and some more pics of my Enigmatic Speedy from Spain:

How does this affect the value?

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