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3510.82, SPEEDMASTER REDUCED

$4,500

An Omega Speedmaster Reduced, ref. 3510.82, made for the Japanese market.

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An Omega Speedmaster Reduced, ref. 3510.82, made for the Japanese market. The sunburst blue dial carries three silver registers in an inverted panda layout, the reverse of the classic panda, so light subdials float on a dark field. White hands with luminous fill sweep the dial, black hands mark the registers, and the tachymeter bezel frames it all. The 39mm stainless steel case sits under a sapphire crystal. Inside is the self-winding calibre 3220 chronograph. It comes on an Omega steel bracelet.

The Speedmaster arrived in 1957 as a racing chronograph, the tachymeter moved from the dial onto the bezel. In 1965 NASA put a handful of chronographs through eleven trials of heat, cold, vacuum, shock and vibration, and the Speedmaster was flight qualified. In July 1969 it was on the Moon, and it has been the Moonwatch ever since. In 1988 Omega introduced the Reduced: the same three registers and tachymeter bezel in a 39mm case, with a self-winding movement in place of the hand-wound calibre. In 2003 it made the 3510.82 for Japan alone, a blue and silver variant long reported at 1,500 pieces and never sold in other markets. The Reduced left the catalogue in 2010, and the Japanese blue has only grown harder to find.

We sourced it for the blue. Omega made the Reduced in black, in white and in several racing schemes, but this sunburst navy with silver registers was made for one country and stayed there. Indoors it is deep and quiet; step into daylight and the sunburst lights up in cobalt. The inverted panda flips the classic Speedmaster contrast, so the silver subdials sit on the dial like gauges on a dashboard. At 39mm it shares the diameter of the very first Speedmaster of 1957, and the automatic movement keeps it wound as you go. It carries the whole Moonwatch story at a size and in a colour most people have never seen in person. Curated with intent.