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Vintage 42mm stainless steel Omega Speedmaster Professional, Cal. 861, Ref. 145.022 CRS, SN: 45254xxx, made in 1981. Nice speedy in very good condition, probably never polished, comes on its original Omega ST 1171/633 steel bracelet. Runs great and all functions work as expected.
Original “Long S & R” dial with tritium indexes. The present watch was made in the first half of the 1980s and the caseback is signed CRS, characterized by a new case maker for Speedmasters: C.-R. Spillmann et Cie (abbreviated C.R.S.), which produced cases for Speedmasters between 1981 and 1987. Since then, the year was no longer indicated inside the caseback. Models from the early 1980s, whose case was manufactured by C.R.S. are distinguished by a flatter lugs top than on the other versions.
Case. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, stainless steel bezel with inserted black tachometer ring graduated to 500 UPH, case back engraved with: “Omega Speedmaster – First Watch Worn On The Moon, Flight-Qualified by Nasa for all Manned Space Missions”. Dial. Matte black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/ seconds divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white “baton” hands, luminous white hand for the central seconds. Movement. Cal. 861, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.
Watch is in overall great condition, running and ready to wear or gift!