I've owned this watch for over 2 years now and have worn it every single day since the day I bought it. I intend to keep it for years (probably for the rest of my life) as it remains the most swanky and stylish (elegant yet functional) watch I've ever owned (and I've owned and sold quite a few).
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br /The Speedmaster has all the appeal and extreme accruracy of a Rolex, yet none of the gaudiness-it's understated, cool but not too cool. Looking at it evokes a sense of faith in exploration and the adrenaline rush of speed and the force of Gs or zero gravity. With it's black dial and white hands, and brushed silver bracelet and casing, the Speedmaster is one of the best executed designs to come out of the last 100 years and certainly one of the most classic timepieces ever.
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br /There are other models that offer things since as a day/date, or a slightly smaller size, or a glass crystal instead of the sturdy Hesalite plastic one, but these are not the original "Moon Watch" and are not worth buying. If you are going to go Speedmaster, get the original. Technically this is a men's watch, but I've seen it worn by a woman with great success (the actor Daniel Day-Lewis's wife wears one).
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br /It's Swiss made and Nasa spacewalk certified. This very watch model was worn on the Moon (on the outside of the space suit!) by Neil Armstrong in the Apollo missions back in the late 1960s. The build quality and styling has not changed much since then (it hasn't needed to). This is a manual watch, which means you have to wind it up. I like that, it becomes part of your daily routine like sleeping and eating. The back is engraved with a cool logo and a Nasa approval insignia. When your mate picks it up off the nightstand in the morning and reads what it says on the back, she will probably ask you about it.
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br /This is the stuff of legends, and it's a pretty good watch too.

After much research, I purchased an Omega Speedmaster in 1968 as an 18th birthday present to myself. There were not many chronographs available at that time (Rolex, Breitling, Omega and probably others I no longer remember). To my surprise, that summer (or next), Omega began agressive advertising that it's watch was the official timepiece of the Apollo Astronauts. It reaffirmed my choice. Thirty years later, it is still the best watch I own (including my Submariner). My only complaint is that I have gone through three or four bracelets/straps. Ironically, a new metal bracelet costs more than the original cost of my Speedmaster ($185). Interestingly, no Rolex owner has ever commented on my Submariner, but fellow Speedmaster owners always start up a conversation with each other. I cannot comment on the new Speedmasters, but mine has been dropped, thrown, drowned, frozen, heated, shaken and abused for 30 years and still runs great. I recommend factory cleaning, vacuum sealing and a new crystal every 10 years or so, just to be safe.

This watch is a true classic. I've owned mine for over 30 years, I've worn it almost everyday and it still works like the day I got it. Yes, it's been in for repair a few times (after awhile the buttons stick), but this watch will outlast me.
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br /It keeps perfect time, or as close as a mechanical watch can get, it's extremely easy to read and the chronograph funtions work better than any other chronograph I own. I charge by the hour, and this watch has been very handy for me, especially given the fact that it will time things up to 12 hours, a movement that's very hard to find or very expensive.
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br /It's only downfall is the fact that you have to wind it. Forget to do this and you'll be late for everything, but you soon get used to it.
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br /Omega's "Moon Watch" looks as good in the boardroom as it does on the tennis court, and it's a hell of a deal for a great timepiece.

The Omega Speedmaster is one of the very few watches that have gone orbiting the Earth and the only one landed on the Moon. It is a pleasure to wind it manually and its feats are legendary (like when one timed the exact moment to ignite the engines of the failed Apollo 13 Mission). Therefore I recommend it to anyone who enjoys fine craftsmanship, tradition and value, since it is one of the most affordable high-end watches on the market.

Bought in 1983 for about 800 bucks. It's a little heavy, but it is so beautiful. I wear it 5 - 10 times / month. One new crystal needed in 1998. No work on the mechanical movement, ever.
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br /Worn by Michael Schumacher and Michael Crichton, to name a few.
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br /An old Swiss friend told me (back in 1983) that you look at your watch 30 - 100 times a day--why not have a beauty (he had a Patek Phillipe).
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br /Consider it a 20 year investment.

I've never seen this watch up close before so all the descriptions about how big and heavy the watch was really had me concerned. After receiving this I find it to be a perfectly sized men's watch. My day to day watch was a Suunto Vector. The Omega has the same size face but the case of the watch is thinner and smaller than the Vector so it looks just right to me. The weight is solid and I got used to it quickly. The links weren't too difficult to adjust but you may want to take this to a watchsmith or purchase a pin extract tool to go with this (I popped the pins out with a thumbtack and then used a leatherman to pull it the rest of the way out - be careful not to scratch the band). All in all a solid purchase with no regrets.

I have owned mine since 1980, I have had it serviced and it still works and looks great. I have worn it every single day since buying it! In the time I have owned this watch I have seen people go through dozens of watches. The best part is, like all quality products, it can be serviced! This will be the last watch you will ever own!

Even if you take out it's acheivements in the Space Program, this watch could stand on it's own as one of the finest timepieces ever built. I sit it next to the Rolexes in my watch case and it instantly takes command, making the Rolexes seem like unworthy subordinates. Plus, call me wierd but I love the morning winding ritual. This has become my treasured daily-wearer and will continue to be until it outlasts me.

The OMEGA SpeedMaster Professional "moonwatch" is a historical, significant piece of horology and NASA space/moon exploration that you can wear on your wrist! While Rolex has also spent time in space via their GMT model the SpeedMaster was the first watch on the moon and used to help time rocket burns. It is tough and accurate. Mine has been running +/- 5 seconds/day and while it's strange to wind my watch by hand after being used to "automatics", it has earned a place on my wrist for life. This model is a must have for any true watch collector OR space exploration, Apollo Mission, history buff.

For all the people complaining about their wristwatch being a minute and a half off in 24 hours: At 86,400 seconds in a day a watch that is 99.9% accurate will lose 86.4 seconds in a day. If you need timing accuracy greater than 99.9% you are either working for a scientific organization (and therefore using timing devices more accurate than any wristwatch made) or you are over-caffeinated and obsessive compulsive. These mechanical watches create an emotional response in some that a few thousands of a percent increase in accuracy cannot outweigh. Attempting to quantify the purchase of an Omega Speedmaster by attacking it's relative accuracy is like saying Porsches are a poor choice of car because they're less fuel efficient than a Honda Civic. If you don't marvel at the fine craftsmanship and tradition included in an item like the Omega Speedmaster that's fine. There are plenty of $25 wristwatches that keep good time.

When I graduated from college in 1966, my parents gave me a fine very slim gold Swiss watch. It didn't last a month in the Amazon. The stainless automatic Seiko I bought at the PX in Vietnam was stolen out of my car. Then I bought my last watch, the Omega Speedmaster Professional.
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br /I was half way through law school when I bought it at Al's Pawn Shop in Nashville in 1974 for about $125, the most I could afford. A year later my wife gave me a tooled silver bracelet watch band for my birthday. It's the only watch I have worn since.
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br /It has always been amazingly accurate. When it quits because I forgot to wind it, that means I have been too busy and I try to slow down. As a litigator, I use the stop watch function frequently to time my work. When it finally wore out after some 25 years, I sent it to an expert near Seattle I located online and he put it back into like new shape...for five times what I had paid for it.
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br /In 1997 I saw the same watch in a store window in Geneva. I made a note of the price in Swiss francs and later calculated it cost around $3500 in US dollars. That's when I realized my treasured watch had probably been stolen and fenced at Al's Pawn Shop all those years before. Until then I had thought I was merely the beneficiary of a man down on his luck who needed money to get home.
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br /To see the exact same watch on the wrist of the space suit at the Huntsville Space Museum and playing a critical role in the movie, Apollo 13, gives me a funny sense of pride at my uncanny good luck to have a watch I will never replace at such a low price. On a subconscious level I hope the satisfaction the watch has given me for these past 30+ years is somehow sensed by the owner from whom it was stolen and he is pleased. Especially since he had it adequately insured.

I was sold a FAKE omega speedmaster!!! The seller had no pictures, just a stock file photo and when it arrived it was a horribly made copy! It took a month but amazon credit my account!!!

Since I was a boy, I wanted one of these watches. When I spent 6 weeks in Switzerland in 1972, I hucked my Mom crazy to buy me this watch. Instead, she did get me an Omega deVille stainless design chronograph which reminded me of the Moon watch and cost only a fraction as much. This watch needed multiple repairs during the 1970's and cost more in repairs by several fold than the original purchase. I retired it and it sits in a jewelry box for the last 25 years, unworn.
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br /Fast forward to the late 1990's with the stock market boom and I finally got what I had wanted for so long - this Moon watch! I wore it with enormous pride for about a year and a half until it broke, while winding it, and that lead to the revelation that repair was expensive and inconvenient. It had kept such poor time, losing two or more minutes a day, that I boxed it on my dresser and it sits there to this day unworn, broken. A deep disappointment...
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br /Oddly, I spied a Wenger Swiss Army chonograph in stainless at a large retailer that had style and substance and was electronic to keep perfect time and cost $100!
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br /I still wear that today after 6 years and one battery change.
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br /Watch out what you wish for - it may be more desirable in the mind than on the wrist!

I've had this watch for 4 years. It looks great, but mechanically it's been a disappointment. It has never kept good time. Plus, I had to have it "fixed" twice. The first time it was 4 days out of the 1 year warranty, it cost me $85 to get it "unfrozen".
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br /A few years later, the stem got bound up and wouldn't turn. Another trip to my authorized Omega dealer costs me $200.
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br /The watch is working fine, but still loses about 2 minutes a day. Imagine, $1,800 for a watch you have to set everyday. Buy yourself the entire Timex collection for that price. You'll have 150 watches that work!
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I have two speedmasters and have had them for about 8 and 5 years respectively. They both have the same attibutes, they run slow after being serviced by Omega, the bracelets -- the pins fall out of them [they don't use better threaded type screws], the sliding clasps just don't stand up. Omega does not make the movements for these watches, ETA makes the majority of the automatics. You are buying what you believe is an authentic watch from the ground up but its not the 'case', you are buying only the 'case'. Omega is a Swatch company, and you can buy them anywhere, heavily discounted. As you are aware Swatch makes costume jewelry quartz throwaways. This corportate link degrades from from the value of the watch. I have owned two Rolex watches, one since 1984 and the other since 1995 both bought new. They are superior in quality, time accuracy, look, finish and value. They run for years after servicing and keep running fast within tolerance-- about +1 to +6 seconds/day. You will be getting a much very value with the Rolex, so just spend the money and enjoy it. Rolex movements are great and the reputation for customer service is flawless. The bracelets are very good. They protect their name and their dealerships are hand choosen. This value means greater pride to own the best, and why spend this much money without pride heritage. Go to Rolex.com and read about how they build their movements and the extreme detail to attention. If you own an Omega and enjoy it thats fine.