View Omega Speedmaster Professional Movement History UK. The speedmaster is a wristwatch with chronograph function, which was put on the market in 1957 and was then equipped with the manual winding movement 27 chro of 1942. The speedmaster's history goes back to 1957 when it was introduced as a sports and racing the movement of choice was the calibre 321 that was introduced in 1942 as a joint project.
The particular speedmaster i have is a 3573 or sapphire sandwich that the watch wears well, keeps great time, and has one of the more useful complications, a chronograph.
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