fresh from the showcase at SwissWatchExpo we get a lot of questions about the sizes
of Speedmasters because there's a lot of them out there we're going to show you the five main sizes
that we carry here at SwissWatchExpo show you an on wrist and as well as the size comparison
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if you know anything at all about us here at SwissWatchExpo you know we're Speedmaster crazy
and we're Speedmaster nuts but one of the things that does drive people nuts about this watch is
that there are so many sizes and so what we're going to show you this morning is the five main
sizes that we sell that people call about there are six other sizes believe it or not that are
not these five so I'll tell you about those as we go along but the uh the starting point the
smallest one is the Speedmaster 38 and so as you might guess from the name it is 38 millimeters in
diameter and a lot of these do feature gemstones I tend to think of this more as a ladies watch
a woman who wants to wear a bigger watch a Speedmaster it's a great look but we do have
it classified on our website as a men's watch just because of the size the 38-millimeter it's
actually a little bigger than say a Rolex Datejust or a Rolex President that's you know the the
legacy model that they made from the 50s until really just a few years ago so you can see if
you sort of ignore the diamond bezel or or maybe you're a guy that likes diamonds on your watch if
you look at it on my wrist it's actually a good size even on me and my wrist is about a seven and
a quarter seven and a half something like that so pretty average size wrist and and you can see
this 38-millimeter it actually looks good and a lot of people are predicting that the big watch
trend that's been so big for the last 20 years that the pendulum swinging back the other way and
that people are going to return to a more normal sized watch so it might be that this Speedmaster
38 becomes more of a standard size in the Speedmaster line if you look on the Omega website
they've probably got 30 or 40 variations on this watch right now so it's a definitely a product
that they are putting a lot of emphasis on for the future interesting on this one that you don't see
the same kind of lyre shaped lugs that you see on the other Speedmasters this is more of a straight
lug with it high polished and then the bracelet a combination of brushed and polished it does tend
to remind me of the six-digit Datejusts but it's a beautiful watch you can get a lot of different
configurations of the dial this one is steel and gold with the the gold bezel and the gold pushers
it's really beautiful it does have the closed caseback but again there's lots of different
variations on the Speedmaster 38 on our website if you just search Speedmaster 38 these will come up
kind of the next bigger one that uh that we've got out here today is the 39-millimeter and
um there are a lot of Speedmaster 39s the most notable is the Speedmaster Reduced and it looks
a lot like the MoonWatch just smaller and so that name reduced sometimes people call us and ask us
if the price is Reduced it is less expensive than a regular 42-millimeter MoonWatch but the
Reduced is the name of the watch because it's a 39-millimeter they thought it would be more of a
size for kind of every man when it came out that at the time the the big watch trend hadn't taken
over yet and so it was a a good size it comes with both either a hesalite crystal or the sapphire but
you see a lot of variations in the 39s that's where the a lot of the Speedmaster Day Dates
are and um there's a lot of them that are based on the Valjoux 7750 movement you'll see that a
lot but a lot of different variations in dial colors and bezel colors and you can see I mean
it does look a little bit bigger you'd think one millimeter wouldn't make a big difference between
the Speedmaster 38 and these 39s but it definitely looks bigger on my wrist than the 38 did and I'll
show them to you side by side here in a second but if I had to just default to a size I think 39,
40 is probably a good size for most people if they call up and they just don't know what they're
looking for although if someone's a big guy that 39 is probably going to be not quite big enough
for his tastes so I don't know if you can even see the difference between 38 and 39 here but
um they both wear really really well so then we go to the Speedmaster 40 and this is where
there's a lot of the racing editions a lot of different dial colors this one has the
Panda design with the bright yellow accents and I love this one there's a
lot of different variations on this one you can see black dial black bezel blue dial Blue beze
lots of different colors there and again I'll show it to you right next to the 39 you
wouldn't think that a one millimeter would make a big difference but I see it more on this one
a lot of times people are looking for a MoonWatch that is automatic or has the date and it doesn't
exist there's no 42-millimeter that has the automatic movement and the date so a lot of
times this is the one people will get when they they can't get the 42 the 40 really looks good now
this is the size of most of the Rolex Professional Series models the Daytona the Submariner until
they changed it to 41 recently the GMT Master II the Explorer II until they increased it but the
sort of the the standard size on the Rolex sport models has been 40 for decades and this watch is
the same size although to me it looks a little bit smaller visually and I think it's just because
it's thicker than those Rolex models it tends to look a little bit smaller on the wrist because the
dimensions sort of play with the eye but again great size on just about anyone anytime someone
orders the Speedmaster 40 I'm excited about it because I know they're going to love it but those
are automatic with the date in general sometimes day-date lots of different options there so
then we get to the 42-millimeter and this is the classic Moon watch it is a hand wound mechanical
movement there is no date it comes with either the hesalite crystal or the sapphire crystal and
it might have the open caseback the exhibition caseback where you can see the movement or it
might have the solid caseback loads of different variations on this watch special editions
anniversary models commemorating a certain NASA Mission but probably the classic Speedmaster and
when we think about the Speedmaster this is the one I fell in love with when I saw a Life magazine
ad for it back in the 1970s when I was a kid and I've loved it ever since super legible with
the white hands against the black background and just an absolutely iconic watch it looks great on
the bracelet or on a NATO strap or a distressed leather and even though it's 42-millimeter this
size really looks good on almost everybody I don't think I've ever seen anyone try it on
that it didn't look good on no matter how big or small your wrist is this is you know for me
sort of the ultimate Speedmaster but I understand a lot of people want that automatic movement they
want the date so then in the racing series Omega came out with this big one that's 44.25 and you
can see it is definitely a big difference from the 42. it's a lot thicker the back crystal is
domed and so it sits up off the wrist a good bit more and so you have to really have a little bit
more confidence in the size watch you can carry to wear this one I've pretty much just recently
talked myself into it that I think I could do this one but I've been debating for a couple of
years whether it could work on me or not but this is where you get a lot of this is the the Master
Chronometers there's moon phases it has two big counters instead of three which is really cool
it does have the exhibition caseback we've talked before about this 9900 caliber movement that has
the Cotes de Geneve and Arabesque and two barrels and anti-magnetic and all the features so if
you're looking for the one with the most features this is it the 44.25 so what did we not mention
okay there's a believe it or not bigger than the 38 but smaller than the 39 there's a 38.6
could they not have just made it 38 or 39 I don't know why but it's a 38.6 and that's in the reissue
of the 321 movement I don't have one of those to show you I don't have but we probably do have some
of these that I could have shown you but Penny and Elena will only let me bring out five watches
at a time between the 39 and the 40. there's a 39.7 that's used on the 321 and the first
Omega in Space and I think that's the size of the silver Snoopy Award watch we've got in stock if
you search Snoopy on our website you'll see those then if we switch over to the Heritage
series Speedmasters between the 40 and the 42 there is a 40.5 and a 41.5 on the Speedmaster
57s so you have your choice of either of those and then between the 42 and the 44 and a quarter there
is a Chronoscope that's 43. Again, if you search Chronoscope on our website you'll see which ones
we have currently and then I just found out this morning there is a 45-millimeter minute
repeater split seconds rattrapante chronograph that sports the 1932 caliber which mimics the
Olympic timing of the 1932 Olympics where Omega took over the Olympic timing and that watch is
almost a half a million dollars so I don't think that we're going to readily stock it
here at SwissWatchExpo it makes a lot more sense for us to buy you know 50 of something else than
one of that watch so I doubt we'll have it here but that's an interesting watch and if you get
one I would love for you to FaceTime us and let me see it on your wrist because I doubt we'll
get to see it so these are the five main sizes there are six more that we didn't have here so
between them all we're talking about 11 different Speedmaster sizes and so there's really something
for everyone but if I had to just pick one I'm going with the 42-millimeter original MoonWatch .