Omega Speedmaster X-33 Guide: References, Specs, Prices | Ultimate Watch

The Omega Speedmaster X-33 is the digital sibling in a family famous for its analog moonwatch. Where the classic Speedmaster Professional is a hand-wound mechanical chronograph, the X-33 is a thermo-compensated multifunction quartz watch built around a titanium case and a genuine astronaut brief. Omega launched it on March 28, 1998 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, developed with input from astronauts and cosmonauts who needed a wrist instrument that could juggle three time zones, mission timers, countdowns, and a loud alarm they could actually hear inside a pressurized suit or a noisy spacecraft. It is the only Speedmaster line qualified for spaceflight that runs on a battery, and it has stayed in the catalog, in one form or another, for more than 25 years. We are a family-owned shop on 47th Street in New York, in business since 1959, and we buy and sell X-33s across all four generations. This is a tool watch with a very specific buyer: the pilot, the engineer, the frequent traveler, the collector who wants a NASA-tested Speedmaster without paying Moonwatch mechanical prices. If that is you, keep reading, and if you already own one and want to move it, bring it to the counter.