One page, the whole house. Start with the report everyone cites, then wander as deep as you like.
The Saturday report · every weekThis week’s Market Report
Asking vs. realized, labeled and dated — the week’s honest numbers across nine vintage references. When a claimed sale fails verification, we say so and withdraw it.
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NASA’s broadcasts, the station’s day, and the launch board on one page. When NASA or SpaceX go live, it plays here — dockings, boardings, spacewalks, launches.
Open the Live hub → The communityThe Lounge
The watch as heirloom, daily companion, and good-luck charm — the tables where collectors talk about why these watches stay, and what they carry.
Pull up a chair → The toolWhat year is my Omega?
Enter a movement serial, get an estimated production year — plus which Speedmaster references were in production then. Free, no account, thirty seconds.
Date a movement → MembersSubscribe
The Saturday dispatch is free, every week. Membership opens the Daily Glass Case at the founding rate — and The Circle beyond it — a small room, kept small on purpose, in the spirit of the 1957 debut.
See membership →The five-guide path
New to vintage Speedmasters? The Journal’s five guides run from history to the buying table — take them in order and every other section here will make more sense.
Step 01A line drawn to the Moon
Start at the beginning: from the CK 2915 of 1957 to NASA qualification and the watches worn on the lunar surface.
Read the guide → Step 02The Moonwatch, reference by reference
Learn to tell the generations apart — cases, calibres, dials, and the details that separate a grail from a parts watch.
Read the guide → Step 03Reading the vintage market
How condition, originality, provenance, and venue shape value — before you look at a single listing.
Read the guide → Step 04Buy well. Preserve better.
Finding value, inspecting a candidate, and maintaining a Speedmaster without erasing its history.
Read the guide → Step 05The Watch That Never Came Home
The verified story of the missing Moonwatch — and where the surviving flown Speedmasters rest. End with the mystery.
Read the guide →Then, wander
- The Flight Archive — mission-by-mission photography of Speedmasters in space.
- The podcast — Speedy Tuesday flight-history episodes and the Saturday market brief, narrated by The Collector.
- The Glass Case — what sellers are asking right now, refreshed by our nightly market sweep.
- Price Trends — verified realized and asking prices across nine references, plotted over time.
- Price Drops — asking-price reductions, tracked nightly across the major venues.
- The Reference Library — all nine vintage references, documented one by one.
- Rarities — Snoopys, Ultramans, and the unicorns — including the Alaska Project prototypes.
- Spotted — famous wrists, every reference identified and every claim sourced.
- Astronauts & Their Watches — mission by mission, from the first spacewalk to the Station.
- Care & Keeping — the owner's manual your Moonwatch never came with.
- The Launch Board — upcoming Space Coast liftoffs, with a live countdown.
- The Lounge — the watch as heirloom, daily companion, and good-luck charm.
- The Collector's Toolkit — seven free instruments: a serial-number lookup, a dial identifier, a birth-year lookup, correct bracelets, NASA's 1964 gauntlet, the four Moonwatch calibres, and boxes & papers.
- Contact — a correction, a listing worth a look, or just talking Speedmasters.