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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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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