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Wasn’t the Tintin just a marketing exercise that went wrong?
Not sure if any GMTs are particularly storied in the way certain divers and chronos are. Pan Am pilots didn’t get up to the same sort of adventures I guess.
You could pop the bezel off a Rolex like Marlon Brando?
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Wasn’t the Tintin just a marketing exercise that went wrong?
Hergé's family revoked their permission for the project at the 11th hour, after Omega had painted the first run of dials.
Omega then released the watch as a series Speedmaster Racing to use up the dials, despite it being a "proper" Moonwatch with the hesalite crystal, text on the back of the case etc.
So it wasn't what it was sold as, and conjecture is that the actual number produced was below the numbers for a limited edition as they only had what they'd painted, less some for service dial stock for the production run.
To me that makes this model interesting, it's a model with its own story, that's not what it was sold as, in a family of watches that have the whole Apollo program story as their background.
Dammit
I was hoping for something that would shed some light on one of them - something similar to the story behind the Tintin Speedmaster, which to me makes up a large part of what makes it special, rather than marketing copy that points out the wonders of sapphire crystal and how amazing 100 metres of water resistance is.
Something that shows that the watch in question has a little bit of soul to it, and that the story has in some way had an impact on the person telling it.