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Omega Speedmaster Date - Panda Dial

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A Familiar Case With A Different Attitude

This Speedmaster Reduced keeps the classic Speedmaster shape but shifts the feel entirely. Same case design, same proportions, but a dial that changes the watch’s personality. It wears comfortably and looks unmistakably like a Speedmaster, just with a sharper, more playful edge.

Why This Configuration Matters

The panda dial is the defining feature here. Black base, contrasting white sub dials, and a layout that pulls straight from vintage racing chronographs. It gives the watch energy and depth without cluttering the design. The sub dial arrangement stays balanced and legible, and the date is integrated cleanly without disrupting the overall look. The lume on the hands and hour markers has aged evenly, adding warmth and reinforcing the vintage character rather than fighting it.

What You Need To Know Before Wearing It

The watch is in very good condition. It remains completely original, including the signed Omega crown, caseback, dial, and movement. The case retains its original finishing and shows only light, honest wear consistent with age. The dial is clean and well preserved, and the sapphire crystal remains clear. The automatic chronograph movement is running properly.

Why This Watch Still Works

This piece works as a daily chronograph for someone who prefers comfort without giving up character. Familiar, slightly unexpected, and increasingly appreciated for exactly that reason.

 

Bracelet extension, cutting, or sizing is available upon request through our professional in-house jewelers.

Key Specs

Reference number - 3511.50

Crystal - Sapphire

Movement - Automatic

Year - 1990's

Dial color - Black

Case material - Steel

Case size - 39mm

Bezel type - Steel

History

In 1957, Omega released the Speedmaster as a racing chronograph. Eight years later, NASA put it through a battery of extreme tests — temperature, humidity, vacuum, shock, vibration, acceleration — and in 1965 certified it as the official watch for all manned space missions.

On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin wore his Speedmaster on the surface of the Moon. No other watch has been to the Moon. That fact has never stopped mattering to anyone who cares about watches.

The Speedmaster's production history across our inventory is rich: the manual-wind Professional (ref 145.022 from 1969 itself), the Reduced automatic (3510.5, 3511.5, 3511.8 with date), the Triple Calendar series (3521, 3523.3), the Michael Schumacher limited editions (3810.12, 3518.5), and the AC Milan and Schumacher World Champion 2000 editions. Each variant was built on the same essential chassis — the 39mm steel case, the tachymeter bezel — and each one lands somewhere on the continuum between racing instrument and artifact of human achievement.