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It looks "wrong" with such a sterile bezel.
Probably because the tachy is so ubiquitous on the speedmaster
Actual cool story though (bro)
DethBeard-
Agree it jumps out but in a functional way, I think my brain just ignores what is actually written on the tachy bezel because I got used to it.
@jv I won't be breaking up any watches in my franken creation, strictly a parts bin build!
@ChainBreaker Missed you too dude, was a really interesting one actually. Simon Freese did a talk on his approach to hand making watch cases, there was dirty dozen discussion and history lesson on Smith's ill-fated attempt at quartz called the 'Quasar'. Pics to follow.
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Autavia vibes a bit.
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Also the dials is so finely detailed that the sterile bezel just look big and blocky
inchpincher
Regal
edscoble
One for the Speedy nerds. When Omega were submitting watches for later space missions in the 1970’s (under the working title Alaska project) one of the astronaut lead revisions was a 60 second bezel. A Tachymeter is fairly useless on earth, let alone space and most of the chronograph timing operations were less than a minute. The bezel appeared on prototypes (below) but never made it into production… until one guy in the US made some inserts!
https://www.radialproject.com/
I’m not going to put it on this Speedmaster but will build a bitsa over time, I think it looks dope.