The new racing watch---Omega Speedmaster Pro Tintin

Tintin Destination Moon (or Objectif Lune) may be the 16th comic album of Hergé’s Tintin series. It had been written 19 years prior to the Moonlanding (Apollo 11 in 1969) and eight years prior to the first manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin). The storyline about Tintin, Haddock and professor Calculus continues within the next album, “Explorers around the Moon” (1954). 

          

Unlike the real thing (Saturn V), their rocket stays successfully along with a flight towards the Moon is only a matter of hours (rather than days). OMEGA’s Mind of Product Jean Claude Monachon described the red and whitened design of the Speedmaster Professional ref. 311.30.42.30.01.004 took its origin from the colors of the rocket within the Tintin comic albums.

That which you don’t see around the new Speedmaster Professional ‘Racing’ may be the rocket itself. The initial prototype of the watch also had this famous Tintin rocket around the dial. OMEGA required the style of this Tintin homage towards the writer of those comic albums and suggested producing a ‘Tintin Speedmaster’. The writer of Tintin regrettably didn’t accept it and also the plan was from the table. OMEGA removed the rocket in the dial design and made the decision to create this is a new ‘Racing’. 

It is based on the standard Speedmaster Professional 3570.50 however with the red and whitened checkered dial along with a caseback having a red filled engraving. As you can tell, it's all like the regular Speedy Professional with stainless steel case back. It is possibly a pleasant detail to exhibit, the anti-counterfeit engraving around the case back of the Speedmaster.

On top of that, it's a very handsome watch to check out. Although it is extremely not the same as the Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo 15 model, the red and whitened outer ring a minimum of helped me think about that certain immediately. Even much more a comparison using the Omega Speedmaster Professional Racing reference 3570.40 which was done specifically for Japan market in 2004, using the red and orange checkered dial.

Inside this Speedy Professional is obviously the hand-wound caliber 1861 (Lemania based) that's been used since 1997. Before that, it had been the caliber 861 movement that has been around since 1968. Merely a couple of minor changes were completed in 1997 for this movement and it is really regarded as ‘just’ an up-to-date version. It's certainly one of the most attempted and examined chronograph movements, not within the last place because of the re-certification of the Speedmaster Professional caliber 861 in 1978 by NASA.