{"id":1774,"date":"2019-03-20T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2019-05-15T01:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:16:20","slug":"rare-find-a-1974-speedmaster-forgotten-in-a-drawer-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/rare-find-a-1974-speedmaster-forgotten-in-a-drawer-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare find : a 1974 Speedmaster forgotten in a drawer for decades (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was informed that an old Speedmaster had been discovered in the shop of a retired watchmaker, somewhere in Belgium. \u00a0The watch had been forgotten in a drawer for decades, a true \u00ab\u00a0time capsule\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0! \u00a0Never restored, never polished, and fully original.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But when I opened the watch, I was surprised. \u00a0Indeed, it has the reference 145022-74 and a step dial, however this type of dial was used till the 145022-71. \u00a0I did some research and found out other -74\u2019s with the same dial. \u00a0I am pretty sure that these dials have not been replaced, because it\u2019s not logical to replace a part with an older one during a service. Actually, it appears that some 74\u2019s had been originally fitted with a step dial because some of these dials were still laying around in the manufacture at that time. \u00a0Stock management was not the same as today…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Soon, the pictures of the watch after restoration…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was informed that an old Speedmaster had been discovered in the shop of a retired watchmaker, somewhere in Belgium. \u00a0The watch had been forgotten in a drawer for decades, a true \u00ab\u00a0time capsule\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0! \u00a0Never restored, never polished, and fully original.   But when I opened the watch, I was surprised. \u00a0Indeed, it has the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[75,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}