Speedmaster Gonzales™

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.