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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.