Speedmaster Gonzales™

Zero verifiable realized sales for a second straight week, October 25–31, 2026, across all nine vintage Speedmaster references — four watches looked sold and none of them was, asking medians moved on mix not momentum, and Geneva's marquee auction rooms have not opened yet.Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

Zero verifiable realized sales across all nine vintage references for October 18-24, 2026 — Antiquorum's New York sale printed no verifiable Speedmaster lot, the timed platforms printed nothing, and the week's one claimed eBay sale failed verification and was withdrawn. Rich unpacks why an honest zero matters, the Bulang tropical-dial Ed White that left the board at a nineteen thousand euro ask (a removal, not a result), and why on hold and reserved are not sold. Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/ Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

Straight Writing: The One Word That Moves the Price — On the Omega Speedmaster 145.022-69, the most valuable sentence in collecting isn't on the dial; it's on the back. Rich and Marlowe walk the caseback timeline — the Pre-Moon seahorse back, the 1970 Straight Writing backs that first printed "The First Watch Worn on the Moon" in four straight lines, and the medallion back that followed — plus the NASA permission delay that held deliveries until 1972, the transitional -68 that really debuted the calibre 861, and an honest look at what our own nightly market sweep says the words are worth: an asking price is a hope, not a result, and the premium belongs only to the watch that agrees with its own caseback.Subscribe: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

Back to the Moon, On Time — NASA redrew the Artemis road map this week: Artemis III becomes an Earth-orbit rehearsal in 2027, and the crewed landing moves to Artemis IV in 2028. At the green velvet table, Rich and Marlowe work through what actually changed, why Apollo 9 is the answer to every "delay" headline, and what "the Moonwatch waits one mission longer" honestly means — the X-33 flies the missions; the mechanical Moonwatch carries the story. All dates labeled as NASA states them: planned, and subject to change. Explore the Collector's Toolkit and the weekly market filings: https://speedmastergonzales.com Listen to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/62dlvagVIEvxpDaxST9nkN Speedmaster Gonzales™ is an independent channel. Not affiliated with or endorsed by OMEGA SA. All content is for educational purposes only. Footage: NASA (public domain). Subscribe: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

Two verified sales, both at Catawiki and both calibre 861: a 1971 145.022-71 at €4,300 on October 11, below its €6,500–€7,200 estimate, and a no-reserve 145.022-68 at €3,100 on October 13 — while all seven other references, including every calibre-321 reference, recorded no verifiable realized sale. Rich unpacks why timed no-reserve results clearing far below dealer asks are the week's real story.Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

Marlowe joins Rich at the green velvet table with the question that splits collectors: when Omega replaced the column-wheel calibre 321 with the cam-switched 861, wasn't that a downgrade? The receipts say otherwise — the 861 rode in Apollo 17's command module, timing the heat-flow experiment while Cernan and Schmitt walked below, and went on to Skylab and the Shuttle. And the 145.022-71 — stepped dial, twisted lugs — became the hinge of the vintage market: the first Moonwatch built for a world that had already been to the Moon. Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA. Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

Two verified sales this week — both near $4,800, both working watches from the value end of the market. A 1968 145.012-68SP at Watch Collecting Hong Kong and a 1969 straight-writing 145.022-69 pre-moon at Bruun Rasmussen came in within thirteen dollars of each other, while the big-ticket pieces sat quiet. When only the cheapest honest watches change hands, the market is telling you where the money is.Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

A genuinely quiet week: zero verifiable realized sales across all nine vintage Speedmaster references for September 27 through October 3, while dealer asking prices held firm everywhere — the market is listed, not traded. Rich walks through five near-miss prices that failed the report's substantiation test and why, plus the asking landscape from the Ed White through the No NASA 145.022-71.Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

A quiet week with two verified prints: a 145.012-67 sold for $4,800 on eBay (September 20, 25-bid auction, unpolished cal. 321) and a pre-moon 145.022-69 sold for $3,799.99 (September 21, best offer accepted) — the only confirmed realized sales across all nine vintage references. Auctions, forums, and dealer archives yielded nothing verifiable in-window. Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA. Get the Saturday market report in your inbox: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

Some Speedmasters you can read from across the room. In this Speedy Tuesday episode: tropical dials, stepped pie-pan dials, and DON bezels — the details that speak before the loupe comes out. Which detail do you read first — the dial, the bezel, or the patina? Get the Saturday market dispatch: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

A second straight quiet week for realized sales: zero verifiable auction or marketplace sales across all nine vintage references, September 13-19, while dealer asking prices held firm — Ed White asks £7,950–$22,900, Ultraman variants near $37.5k, and a British military NAAFI-provenance 105.012 asking $26,478. Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.Enjoying the show? Get the free Saturday dispatch — the week's vintage Speedmaster market in your inbox, every Saturday morning: https://speedmastergonzales.com/subscribe/

Theo and June break down a quiet week in vintage Speedmasters: zero verifiable realized sales across all nine references, Sept 6–12, with asking prices holding firm — plus what the asking side tells collectors. Market data is published for information and education — never as investment advice. Not affiliated with OMEGA SA.

Theo and June mark the fiftieth anniversary of the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz docking — when all crews wore Speedmasters — and trace the Moonwatch's unbroken reference chain from the calibre 861 to the 3861, and what Artemis II could mean next.

Theo and June close the lunar arc — Apollo 15's rover, 16's highland science, and 17's dignified farewell — ending on the quiet symmetry of Gene Cernan's Ed White 105.003, the same reference that opened the spaceflight story.

Theo and June on Apollo 12 through 14, when the Moon became a workplace and the Speedmaster earned its legend the hard way.

Theo and June relive Apollo 11 — the launch, the landing, and the first Moonwalk — and the story of the two Speedmasters that went to the Moon, from the lunar module's backup timer to the gold honors that followed in Houston.

Apollo 8, 9, and 10 were the rehearsals before the landing: each mission raising the stakes, from the first flight to the Moon to a dress rehearsal that stopped nine miles above the surface. Theo and June trace the arc, and the quiet arrival of the calibre 861-powered Speedmaster 145.022 on the crew's wrists.

Theo and June trace the Speedmaster's pioneering years — Schirra's private CK 2998, Jim Ragan's eleven brutal NASA tests, and Ed White's spacewalk with the first flight-qualified Moonwatch.

Buzz Aldrin's Speedmaster — the first wristwatch ever worn on the lunar surface — went into a shipping crate bound for the Smithsonian and never came out. Theo and June follow the verified record: Aldrin's own account from his 1973 memoir, the failed 2003–04 ownership lawsuit, the GAO ruling that cost every astronaut their flown watch, and where the surviving flown Speedmasters rest today. The companion audio to Article V of the Speedmaster Gonzales™ Journal.