A few months ago, Blake tried to stir the pot by
stirring up some controversy with his moonphase Speedmaster and we're gonna continue that trend
and maybe ramp it up to the next level here with the 44-and-a-quarter-millimeter
Co-Axial Master Chronometer Moonphase chronographs. That's a mouthful.
So a few months ago you saw Blake on a video where he talked about a moonphase Speedmaster
that used a four-register dial, and he loved how symmetrical it was, even though they had
moved the word Speedmaster Professional down towards the bottom part of the dial.
He felt like it was still a MoonWatch. And so I'm sure that created some controversy,
but this one to me even takes it up another level, but I'm not such a purist that I
view that the only proper MoonWatch is one that went to the moon. The one that
had the 321 movement, the one that was a manual wind, 42-millimeter black dial, you know,
there are so many different combinations that you can get now. And in 50 years of innovation,
Omega has really raised the bar of what can be done with a MoonWatch.
So I think it's perfectly fine to still call this a MoonWatch, you know,
they still call the latest Corvette. It's still a Corvette. They didn't change the
name just because they changed the design. So I think that we can go with that, but I know that
there might be some people out there that are concerned about the use of the word MoonWatch,
but since Omega does it, we're gonna do it. This watch, I think, is really kind of the greatest
version of the MoonWatch because it really has incorporated all of the greatest technology
that watchmakers currently have for making a watch movement that is extremely reliable,
extremely shock and magnetism resistant, and extremely accurate in a fully mechanical watch and
really the complications that are on it. You might find them somewhat useless. I mean, I know a lot
of people, they don't even set the date on their watches because they just pretend it's not there.
They only want the watch as an accessory, as a cool something to wear on their wrist. And
they don't even care about setting any of the complications, but this watch,
unlike the original MoonWatch, does feature the date. It also features the chronograph, of course,
and you get the moonphases as well. So in all in an automatic winding movement,
these things are all sort of I guess an anathema two the original idea of the MoonWatch. But to me,
it's just the logical conclusion. So this is to me, the greatest MoonWatch they've ever made.
When you look at this design, like Blake said about the four register version,
it's extremely symmetrical, but without the fourth register, you have room up
top to have the word Speedmaster in red, the Omega logo, and the word Speedmaster in red,
you have the word Omega in white and then down at the bottom, it does say Master Chronometer.
And it says Co-Axial master chronometer just above six. So there's a minimal
amount of text on the dial. There's not a whole lot there to sort of clutter it
up because there's already a lot going on here. When you look at this, watch,
you think, how did they do it with just three registers? But it's because the one on the right,
has two hands that show both the minutes and the hours for the chronograph.
Of course, the seconds for the chronograph are provided by the big chronograph second hand
running around from the center of the watch. The 6 o'clock sub register is the moonphases. Now like
Blake said, who uses this professionally? I'm not sure. I mean, are we making this watch for
fishermen that want to know whether the moon's going to be shining at night and astronomers
who want to know whether the moon's going to obscure their vision of Saturn tonight?
Not really sure. My brother-in-law was a police officer. He said that when there was a full moon,
people went crazy. Maybe it's a good predictor of people's behavior, but the moonphase is still
cool because of course, this is a MoonWatch and there's something romantic and interesting about
showing the moonphases. I don't know exactly how Omega makes the moon image there, or what
they say about it on the website. I'm not really sure even what this means, but they say, quote,
it is a metallic crystal disc microstructured to obtain a high-resolution image of the moon.
Nowhere, do they show you a video of how they do this? There are no slideshow pictures of what they
mean by that, whatever it is, it's a mystery. But when you look at the moon, it's not one of these
cartoonish sorts of you know, a man in the moon sort of looks, it's not just a plain gold disc.
like I've seen from a lot of other companies. It really looks like the moon. And here's, what's
cool about it. I was just talking to Penny about this when you look at this photorealistic image
of the moon that's on this watch, maybe you need a loop or you can click on the image on our website.
When you do that, you go into a gallery view and you can mouse over whichever image you wanna see.
And it'll really zoom in, like, you're looking at a watch through a jeweler's loop. But if you
look at that, there is actually buzz Aldrin's boot print in the sea of tranquility on the moon. And
Penny's saying that she never noticed that before, even as many times as she's
photographed these watches. So I'm excited anytime I teach Penny something. But to me,
that's just one of those marks that no one would ever notice unless you knew it was there.
I don't think, but it's one of the cool things that Omega sort of built into the design of the
watch to tie it back to the original moon missions. The Omega Speedmasters went on
all six lunar missions. And it really just sort of solidifies that this truly is a MoonWatch.
Now, the sub-register at nine o'clock, that is for the date. And you'll see it indicated by a hand,
not an aperture, which sort of preserves the look of the watch. It gives that little bit
of red on there as well for a splash of color. And then on that 9 o'clock aperture not only
is there the date, but that's where the running seconds for the watch are. So, the
dials are of course, fully loomed. The indices are rhodium-plated and filled with Super-LumiNova.
The crystals are sapphire front and back.
The front one is coated with AR front and back. The back one's only coated with AR on one side,
but the bezels on these are really cool too because they are the current best technology
we have. They're either liquid metal, which is extremely resistant to any kind of fading,
scratching. It won't wear off, peel off. It's extremely hard to damage it. It's actually twice
as strong as titanium. So, I mean, I don't know what you're gonna be doing with this watch that
that wouldn't stand up to, but that sounds great. And then in this one, that's a combination of rose
gold, which Omega calls Sedna gold because it does have that alloy it's similar to the Rolex Everose
that it has a high copper content, but it also has a high platinum and palladium content so that it's
extremely stable. It won't ever fade over time. But the bezel on it is called Ceragold, which
is a combination of ceramic and gold, where the gold numbers are really integrated into the bezel.
And they're really not gonna scratch or fade or anything like that as well.
When we get to the case, of course, this is the classic Speedmaster case with these lyre-shaped
lugs that we've been loving since the mid-1960s, the built-in crown guards.
The bracelet is really great because it's mostly brushed. It's gonna stand up to day-to-day wear.
It's not gonna show a lot of scratches. It's got a little bit of high polish on these two
really thin lines of high polish so it gives it just a little bit of flair of interest.
An all-just completely brushed finish bracelet is a little bit boring visually. So it's great that
they included that, of course, a double trigger clasp that's extremely secure. It has the built-in
sort of stolen from the Seamaster clasp adjustment in case you couldn't figure out how to adjust it.
It has the big word push on it right there. So you just push that and it allows you to
slide the clasp larger and smaller on the fly. If you feel stuck to your watch in the summer,
you can make it a little bigger. If it feels a little loose in the winter, you're able to
just make it a little bit tighter. But I think really the star of the show is this movement.
The back crystal is a little bit domed. So the movement itself just seems impossibly close
to the crystal. When you look at it, it's like you're able to really sort of zoom in visually
and look at all the great aspects of this. It has the Côtes de Genève and Arabesque.
Omega calls it that's sort of a swirl design. It's absolutely gorgeous. I don't know how they do it,
but it is an Omega exclusive, and it's one of the most beautiful movement touches I've ever seen.
They also take the time to label things for you. So if you're not a watchmaker,
and you're just amazed at the tiny machine you've got on your wrist, you're able to see they label
the column wheel. They label barrel one, barrel, two. Those two barrels are mainsprings that are
in sequence for the movement. And what it does is that it not only gives the
movement a 60-hour power reserve, but it means that over the course of the entire 60 hours,
there's no detectable change in the rate. The amplitude stays exactly the same. It's extremely
hard for a watch to do that, to be that consistent and be the same from the beginning of its power
reserve to the end, but they have done it here. And so when you think about this movement,
it's interesting because I don't think there's any more sophisticated movement for sale for less than
$50,000 out there, but Omega has figured out how to more or less mass produce let's
say a movement with an extremely high level of technical difficulty to make.
The Co-Axial escapement was invented by George Daniels and licensed to Omega they're the only
ones using it. But the goal was to combine the lack of lubrication from the chronometer
escapement with the shock resistance of a lever escapement. And so he was able to do that,
and it's kind of hard to explain. And so that's why I think it maybe doesn't get as much
press as it should. We all know the idea that the Co-Axial movements are more reliable than
a standard movement, but maybe we don't really understand why they don't need lubrication.
They're extremely shock-resistant because they use a silicon hairspring.
They're virtually non-magnetic. So really the things that have made watches stop working over
the years of the lubrication issues, the shock, the magnetism water intrusion into the case, this
one's extremely water-resistant compared to the standard MoonWatch, the Speedmaster professional.
They've really kind of taken care of everything. So that's why I say this might be
for me the best watch that money can buy. That's not extremely expensive if you were looking for
one watch that you could wear all the time, that's less than $10,000. That's one of these
iconic designs that are right up there with a Porsche 911 or Coco Chanel's little black dress,
or, you know, anything else you think of that's just an absolute iconic design.
The MoonWatch Speedmaster is that, and then they've taken it another step by making it
better and better and better. So give us a call. We've got right now, these three variations on
the same watch in stock. These all have the 9904 movement. They're all essentially the
same in layout, just different colors. We have the blue dial black and the Sedna rose gold version.
The watch does come in a couple of other colors. Speedmaster collecting is interesting because you
could have enough variety there that you just really hone in on the one that's your favorite,
but at the same time, there are so many variations that you could have several in your collection. I
mean, there's, for me, there's several I would want. I could probably see myself with four or
five Speedmasters before this thing's over. And there wouldn't be any overlap, really,
because there are just so many different variations on it that you could go with,
but this would be probably my choice for if you just had to pick one,
this would probably be the greatest one that we sell. Of course,
if I make another video about another one, you might hear me say that one's the greatest one.
I'm easily swayed by whichever one's in front of me, but give us a call like, and subscribe.
If you look on our website and you just search Speedmaster Omega, you'll be able to see lots of
different variations. You can change the size slider on our website. If you only wanna see
Speedmaster that are say at least 4- millimeter, if you don't wanna see the 39s and 40s,
if you're a guy with a smaller wrist or you don't like a bigger watch and you want to exclude the
44s and 40 twos, there's a lot of great choices in the 39 and 40 range on the Speedmasters,
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