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Speedmaster '57

The Speedmaster '57 is Omega's answer to a question every serious Speedmaster collector eventually asks: what would the very first Speedmaster feel like on the wrist today, built with a modern movement and modern sizing? Omega's original 1957 CK2915 was the reference that started the whole line, the racing chronograph that put the tachymeter on the bezel instead of the dial and later went to the Moon. The Speedmaster '57 is the deliberate homage to that watch, first shown in 2013 and reworked from the ground up in 2022 for the model's 65th anniversary. We buy and sell these across the counter at 19 W 47th Street, and we handle both the 41.5mm caliber 9300 automatic generation and the slimmer 40.5mm caliber 9906 hand-wound generation regularly. It is one of the few Speedmasters that reads as dressy without pretending to be something other than a chronograph. Straight lugs, no crown guards, a brushed steel tachymeter bezel, and broad-arrow hands lifted straight off the CK2915. If you want the DNA of the original Speedmaster with a warranty and a service network behind it, this is the reference.

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Specifications

Case Size41.5mm (caliber 9300 generation, 2013 to 2021); 40.5mm (caliber 9906 generation, 2022 to present)
Case Thickness16.5mm (9300 generation); 12.99mm (9906 generation)
Lug To Lug50mm (9300 generation); 49.6mm (9906 generation)
Lug Width20mm
Case MaterialStainless steel (also produced in Sedna gold and two-tone on select references)
Movement{"9300generation":"Omega Co-Axial caliber 9300/9301, automatic, column-wheel chronograph, twin barrels, silicon Si14 balance spring, 60-hour power reserve, 28,800 vph, chronometer certified","9906gene…
Chronograph12-hour recorder. The 9300 generation uses a two-subdial layout with a co-axial 3 and 6 o'clock hour/minute counter. The 9906 generation runs a two-counter layout: running seconds at 9 o'clock, combin…
Water Resistance100m (9300 generation); 50m (9906 generation)
CrystalDomed scratch-resistant sapphire with anti-reflective treatment, sapphire display caseback
DialBroad-arrow hour and minute hands, applied Omega logo, tachymeter on the bezel not the dial. 9906 generation offered in matte black (sandwich dial), sunray blue, sunray burgundy, and sunray green
BezelFixed brushed steel bezel with tachymeter scale (laser-engraved and laser-colored on the 9906 generation), DON dot-over-ninety detail as a nod to the vintage original
Year Introduced2013 (first '57 collection); 2022 (65th anniversary caliber 9906 redesign)

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Collector's Lore

Three details collectors chase on the '57. First, the DON, the dot over the ninety on the tachymeter scale, a vintage tell that Omega deliberately worked back into the modern bezel as a nod to the earliest Speedmasters. Second, the broad-arrow hands themselves, which are the single most recognizable link back to the CK2915 and were the visual signature Omega refused to compromise on. Third, the move that split the community in 2022: going back to a hand-wound movement. When Omega dropped the automatic caliber 9300 and fitted the manual caliber 9906, purists cheered because the original 1957 watch was hand-wound and a manual chronograph is the more authentic experience, while others missed the convenience of automatic winding. The deeper piece of lore is the 1957 Trilogy itself, the Speedmaster, Seamaster 300, and Railmaster all launched the same year, which Omega reissued as a boxed set in 2017 for the 60th anniversary in a limited run of 557 pieces. That set is why 1957 is the most important single year in Omega's professional catalog, and it is the reason the '57 name carries the weight it does.

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