This is a wonderful vintage Certina Club 2000. Although it’s one of the lower grade Certinas, it’s still beautifully finished and it has a solid stainless steel case. All the Certina in-house movements that I’ve encountered are great performers and you can accurately regulate them with the micro-regulator. Sadly, the 25-66M movement in this Certina …
After the ref. 105.002, the “oddball”, had been discontinued, Omega introduced its successor in 1963 – the Omega Speedmaster 105.003. Nicknamed “Ed White” after its famous wearer, the NASA astronaut Edward Higgins White (who during the Gemini 4 mission became the first NASA astronaut to take a spacewalk). It was the last of the “straight …
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This time I’d like to introduce Matthias. Matthias is an elementary school teacher who started to intensively collect watches about 4 years ago. He’s the co-administrator of the ‘Horlogefreaks’ Facebook group and he’s also very active in several other Facebook groups and on forums as well. How did your love for vintage watches come to …
When you think of the evolution of the Speedmaster from the first 2915 to the 145.022, it’s easy to overlook one reference – the Omega Speedmaster 105.002. That slight mistake comes from the fact, that the 105.002 is quite difficult to find because Omega only produced a small quantity of them. But we’ll get to …
