Omega Speedmaster Professional American Ever since the mid-1960s

Ever since the mid-1960s

the Seamaster can be seen as Omega's counterpart to Rolex’s Datejust

and by 1958 the company (renamed Gruen Industries - as watchmaking was no longer its primary concern) was sold piece by piece

you can't get much better

a look at the case back—or at what beats beneath it—will show the manufacture’s name

Omega Speedmaster Professional American Ever since the mid-1960sWhy We Love It Take a poll amongst wristwatch collectors, and we'd bet the consensus would be that there might be nothing more important or iconic in a watch collection than an Omega Speedmaster. This particular Speedy, a Reference 145. 022 69ST, was released the very year Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, and is the last model to feature a 'Pre Moon' caseback with Omega's signature Hippocampus engraving. The movement that powers this watch