Vintage Omega Speedmaster Watch 3511.50 Chronograph c.1993 Serviced UK Warranty

SPECIFICATION

Reference: Speedmaster Date 3511.50/175.0043
Movement: Automatic chronograph; Omega calibre 1155
Age: 1993
Case Size: 39mm
Case Thickness: 13mm
Lug to Lug: 45mm
Lugs: 18mm
Condition: Used Omega watch
Box and Papers: No
Case Material: Stainless steel
Warranty: 12-month mechanical UK warranty

POINTS TO MENTION

• In fantastic pre-owned condition, with some wear from use
• Case and bezel have some light scratches and marks
• Fully serviced automatic chronograph movement
  
• Lumed indices have patinaed to a beautiful warm colour
• Signed Omega crown
• Paired on the original Omega signed bracelet (813) that fits up to a 7 3/4 inch wrist approx.
  

THE WATCH

There's more than one way to enjoy the Speedmaster name. By the 1990s Omega was making automatic chronographs for people whose lives were unlikely to involve a space mission, but who still enjoyed the reassuring presence of a mechanical stopwatch on their wrist. The Speedmaster Date was part of that more varied family: sportier than a conventional dress watch, but made for the everyday world.

This reverse-panda 3511.50 has a personality of its own, with silver counters against black and a useful date display. It belongs to the age when mechanical chronographs were finding a new audience, and shows that Omega could develop the Speedmaster story without simply repeating the Moonwatch.

A BIT OF TRIVIA

The movement family behind this Speedmaster very nearly disappeared. As demand for mechanical chronographs collapsed in the mid-1970s, Valjoux's management ordered the tooling for the new 7750 to be scrapped. Its designer, Edmond Capt, preserved the essential tools instead. When mechanical chronographs came back into favour in the 1980s, the 7750 could be manufactured again. An important part of the automatic chronograph's future survived because somebody refused to throw its past away.

OUR THOUGHTS

There's a particular enjoyment in having a chronograph that you can use for something completely ordinary. You might time a short journey or simply watch that seconds hand make its circuit because the mechanism is a pleasure in itself. We like that this Speedmaster invites that sort of involvement, while still being a very easy watch to choose for the day. It's the watch itself we'd want to wear, not somebody else's famous story about it.