{"id":8721,"date":"2022-12-15T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/speedmaster-vintage-the-plexiglas-was-not-always-signed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:05:45","slug":"speedmaster-vintage-the-plexiglas-was-not-always-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/speedmaster-vintage-the-plexiglas-was-not-always-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedmaster vintage : the plexiglas was not always signed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most collectors believe that all vintage Speedmasters should have an Omega logo engraved in the center of their plexiglas.<\/p>\n

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However, over the years, I realized that some examples were fitted with unsigned plexiglasses, yet absolutely identical to the signed ones : same shape, same thickness, same black ring inside.\u00a0 \u00a0 It would therefore be surprising if these glasses were not original.<\/p>\n

Even more interesting, some serial numbers are really close.<\/p>\n

For example, here is the 48.263.27x.<\/p>\n

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And below, the 48.263.35x.<\/p>\n

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Produced about 80 units apart, they both have an unsigned plexiglas.\u00a0 Have they been replaced, or is there another explanation ? \u00a0Let’s not forget that at the time, the various components of a Speedmaster (case, dial, hands, plexiglas…) were manufactured by subcontractors.\u00a0 The company in charge of producing the plexiglasses may have forgotten to engrave the logo on some series of glasses, which could therefore explain this particularity.<\/p>\n

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I have listed below the various Speedmasters with an unsigned plexiglas that I have seen in recent years.\u00a0 These watches all have one thing in common : they were produced between the late 1980’s and the mid-1990’s.\u00a0 For the sake of convenience, I have classified them into 5 series.<\/p>\n

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Series 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

48.238.4xx<\/p>\n

48.239.3xx<\/p>\n

48.240.2xx<\/p>\n

48.240.7xx<\/p>\n

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Series 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

48.250.6xx<\/p>\n

48.254.9xx<\/p>\n

48.256.4xx<\/p>\n

48.257.5xx<\/p>\n

48.258.9xx<\/p>\n

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Series 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

48.263.2xx<\/p>\n

48.263.3xx<\/p>\n

48.264.2xx<\/p>\n

48.268.9xx<\/p>\n

48.269.3xx<\/p>\n

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Series 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

48.278.1xx<\/p>\n

48.278.2xx<\/p>\n

48.281.0xx<\/p>\n

48.281.3xx<\/p>\n

48.286.5xx<\/p>\n

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Series 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

48.292.2xx<\/p>\n

48.295.9xx<\/p>\n

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If you also own a Speedmaster with an unsigned plexiglas, don’t hesitate to contact me in order to update the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most collectors believe that all vintage Speedmasters should have an Omega logo engraved in the center of their plexiglas.   However, over the years, I realized that some examples were fitted with unsigned plexiglasses, yet absolutely identical to the signed ones : same shape, same thickness, same black ring inside.\u00a0 \u00a0 It would therefore be surprising if these glasses were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721"}],"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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsvintagewatches.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}