THE RETURN OF THE NIVADA GRENCHEN AVIATOR SEA DIVER CHRONOMASTER - By B. Goulard If you want to know everything about the vintage Nivada Chronomaster, the authors of Moonwatch Only published...
MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR We are pleased to publish the second article written by our external contributor Matthew Taylor. External contributors have been selected for the quality of their research,...
MY VERY SPECIAL OMEGA FLIGHTMASTER By Dr Strong (France) Some watches are very special. Because of their look, their material, their colors, their movement or their dial. But when you...
MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR We are particularly pleased to inaugurate this new series of articles written exclusively by external contributors. These persons have been selected for the quality of their...
We are often asked to explain the differences between the (many) Speedmaster models fitted with a display back. There might be some confusion between the different types of calibers, casebacks,...
THE MISTERY OF THE GRAY-BLUE DIALS There are at least four types of blue or gray-blue dials that were probably produced in the 1960s, or the early 1970s. We have seen...
THE RAREST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE? We are often asked “Which is the rarest or the most attractive OMEGA Speedmaster?”. This is a tricky question, especially since the second criterion has...
THE ITALIAN JOB In the mid 1980s, the Italian market (and maybe the international market too) was not so easy for the Speedmaster. It was covered by SMH Italia (the...
INTRODUCTION The first Flightmaster chronograph model, the ST 145.013 powered by the caliber 910, appears in OMEGA’s internal documentation starting September 1, 1969, with the first detailed commercial and marketing...
TEN MUST-HAVE BOOKS FOR ANY HOROLOGICAL LIBRARY - By W. Massena Moonwatch Only is certainly one of the best books ever written about a single watch model. The work is scholarly, and...
INTRODUCTION Let us return for a moment to a basic question: what is the exact definition of a Speedmaster Moonwatch pre-Moon model? Several are possible, but the following seems the most...
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY: RHODESIA The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a land-locked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa...